The first college football game was played between Rutgers and Princeton. The date was Nov. 6, 1869.'
Rutgers won 6-4, though the rules were very different from what the sport became in the 20th century.'
In the coming decades, many other prominent schools – particularly on the East Coast – would set up teams and begin playing the fledgling sport.'
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was founded on March 31, 1906, in response to the growing popularity of amateur athletics.
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