The origins of football

As everyone who went to Rutgers or Princeton knows, the first football game took place between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869 (perhaps by coincidence, that was the same year Rutgers’ student newspaper, the Targum, was born).

With today’s contest between the New York Giants and Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium in London, the New York Times takes a look back at the origins of football. (Image above courtesy of Rutgers Athletics.)

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