OT- Rutgers is no longer considered the birthplace of football by the NFL and media

[Adios]

:29. Refers to McGill vs Harvard in 1874. This documentary debuted at the Pro Football Hall of Fame last fall.

Side note, LOL @ Princeton.

 

[mainlinedave]

:29. Refers to McGill vs Harvard in 1874. This documentary debuted at the Pro Football Hall of Fame last fall.

Side note, LOL @ Princeton.

The NFL disagrees with you.

NFL History by Decade

"1869

Rutgers and Princeton played a college soccer football game, the first ever, November 6. The game used modified London Football Association rules. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor with the major eastern schools over soccer, and modern football began to develop from rugby."

So does the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Birth of Pro Football | Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site

"On November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first college football game."

LOL at you!

 

[Stainmaster]

Rutgarbage gonna Rutgarbage.

 

[CL82]

The NFL disagrees with you.

NFL History by Decade

"1869

Rutgers and Princeton played a college soccer football game, the first ever, November 6. The game used modified London Football Association rules. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor with the major eastern schools over soccer, and modern football began to develop from rugby."

So does the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Birth of Pro Football | Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site

"On November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first college football game."

LOL at you!

On November 6, 1869, Rutgers University faced Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey) in a game that was played with a round ball and, used a set of rules suggested by Rutgers captain William J. Leggett, based on the Football Association's first set of rules, which were an early attempt by the former pupils of England's public schools, to unify the rules of their public schools games and create a universal and standardized set of rules for the game of football and bore little resemblance to the American game which would be developed in the following decades.

#Rutgersfanstry2hard.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

#offseason

Sept can't get here fast enough.

 

[mainlinedave]

On November 6, 1869, Rutgers University faced Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey) in a game that was played with a round ball and, used a set of rules suggested by Rutgers captain William J. Leggett, based on the Football Association's first set of rules, which were an early attempt by the former pupils of England's public schools, to unify the rules of their public schools games and create a universal and standardized set of rules for the game of football and bore little resemblance to the American game which would be developed in the following decades.

#Rutgersfanstry2hard.

It bore enough resemblance for it to be nearly universally accepted as the first college football game.

And no one does that thing with the hashtags anymore. You missed that fad by about year.

 

[Devland]

:29. Refers to McGill vs Harvard in 1874. This documentary debuted at the Pro Football Hall of Fame last fall.

Side note, LOL @ Princeton.

There are a lot of myths that are believed by many to be true. Like Columbus discovering America and the Wright brothers being the first to fly. I always thought Connecticut should be bold and put "The real first in Flight"on their license plates.

 

[CL82]

It bore enough resemblance for it to be nearly universally accepted as the first college football game.

And no one does that thing with the hashtags anymore. You missed that fad by about year.

"We are so the birth place of football, everybody says so! We are not the laughing stock of college athletics. That's why we have to come to every fan board in America and tell people how great we are, because we are and, and you should like us, even though no one does and it's not fair because we're great, and, and not a laughing stock at all, and, and no one does hashtags anymore. I hate you, wahhhhhhh!"

#Rutgersfanstry2hard.

 

[Adios]

It bore enough resemblance for it to be nearly universally accepted as the first college football game.

And no one does that thing with the hashtags anymore. You missed that fad by about year.

"....no longer considered...."

You understand this documentary debuted at the Pro Hall of Fame, too? Just last fall? Takes a while for everything to take shape in print.

Good thing we avoided the flight thing. We didn't need more tourists. I must say, SE CT is very nice. Beats SW CT.

 

[uconnell]

Good thing we avoided the flight thing. We didn't need more tourists. I must say, SE CT is very nice. Beats SW CT.

Ssshhhh.

 

[pnow15]

Another think Obama screwed up.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

God this mainlinedave guy makes ruthtiger seem like a Mensa candidate.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

There are a lot of myths that are believed by many to be true. Like Columbus discovering America and the Wright brothers being the first to fly. I always thought Connecticut should be bold and put "The real first in Flight"on their license plates.

If Gus Whitehead (Weisskopf) was born here, instead of being a German immigrant we would be considered first in flight.

 

[ruthetiger]

Heh heh heh. My name. You know it very well.

 

[ruthetiger]

Sigh. I love this board!

 

[mainlinedave]

"....no longer considered...."

You understand this documentary debuted at the Pro Hall of Fame, too? Just last fall? Takes a while for everything to take shape in print.

Good thing we avoided the flight thing. We didn't need more tourists. I must say, SE CT is very nice. Beats SW CT.

Nice try, but when the NFL's own website lists Rutgers as playing in the first college football game ever on their football timeline....and that is on their site right now, it just makes you look dumb.

Maybe you should tell that to NFL.com so they can update their website.

 

[mainlinedave]

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"We are so the birth place of football, everybody says so! We are not the laughing stock of college athletics. That's why we have to come to every fan board in America and tell people how great we are, because we are and, and you should like us, even though no one does and it's not fair because we're great, and, and not a laughing stock at all, and, and no one does hashtags anymore. I hate you, wahhhhhhh!"

#Rutgersfanstry2hard.

That picture more aptly describes you, for having been passed over by the big boys.

 

[uconnell]

If you repeat a story, and that is what it is, often enough it becomes a truth in your mind and others.

 

[uconndogs]

Sigh. I love this board!

Evidently so......you're certainly here enough.

 

[CTMike]

Nice try, but when the NFL's own website lists Rutgers as playing in the first college football game ever on their football timeline....and that is on their site right now, it just makes you look dumb.

Maybe you should tell that to NFL.com so they can update their website.

This is what you come here to thump your chest about? Some game that took place over 100 years ago that only vaguely resembles what is actually played today? God you guys are pathetic. Maybe if you had ANY modicum of success in the intervening centuries you could brag about that?

 

[UConnNick]

If you repeat a story, and that is what it is, often enough it becomes a truth in your mind and others.

It's like Paul Revere vs Israel Bissell. Revere did make his short ride in Mass, but Bissell rode from Boston all the way to Philadelphia, an arduous task even to this day with superhighways and automobiles. Revere gets all the glory, despite his accomplishment being the far lesser of the two. And Bissell was from Conn., so we get dissed yet again, just because Revere's name rhymes better in Longfellow's poem. LOL

When a misstatement of historical fact, or deliberate attempt to ignore one becomes the legend, the legend becomes fact.

 

[CL82]

That picture more aptly describes you, for having been passed over by the big boys.

.... and yet here you are on our board, still handing us your resume...

#Rutgersfanstry2hard.

 

[ruthetiger]

This is what you come here to thump your chest about? Some game that took place over 100 years ago that only vaguely resembles what is actually played today? God you guys are pathetic. Maybe if you had ANY modicum of success in the intervening centuries you could brag about that?

Yes. You're right.

 

[Adios]

Nice try, but when the NFL's own website lists Rutgers as playing in the first college football game ever on their football timeline....and that is on their site right now, it just makes you look dumb.

Maybe you should tell that to NFL.com so they can update their website.

You also realize the NFL is making the effort to begin to re-educate you guys so New England can be recognized as the birthplace of football?

Thanks, but it's not me trying. It's the NFL and Pro Football of Hame.

 

[CL82]

It's like Paul Revere vs Israel Bissell. Revere did make his short ride in Mass, but Bissell rode from Boston all the way to Philadelphia, an arduous task even to this day with superhighways and automobiles. Revere gets all the glory, despite his accomplishment being the far lesser of the two. And Bissell was from Conn., so we get dissed yet again, just because Revere's name rhymes better in Longfellow's poem. LOL

When a misstatement of historical fact, or deliberate attempt to ignore one becomes the legend, the legend becomes fact.

"Listen my children or you will miss-el
the impressive ride of Israel Bissell."