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Current American football takes its origins in different games, all called as “football,” At those times, Rugby School’s students in England played a game in that players taking the ball and running with it, later on this sport was called as Rugby football. British soldiers took the game to Canada and soon it was being played at various Canadian colleges.
The first football game was held between American college teams was an unfamiliar progenitor of current’s college football for it was played using the rules rugby football. The game between the College of New Jersey and Rutgers College teams was played in 1869 at College Field in New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers won with a score of 3 to Princeton’s 4.
The 1869, the game between Princeton and Rutgers and is very significant for it is the first documented play of any sport that was called “football” between the American colleges. Also, it is notable for it came full-two years before a systematized rugby game could be played in Great Britain. The Rutgers/Princeton game was unquestionably dissimilar from what we have today under the name of American football. Despite that, it was the precursor of what developed into American football. Another parallel game was played between Columbia University and Rutgers in 1870 and the fame of intercollegiate contest in football would extend across the country.