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Message: [QUOTE="Adios, post: 2515482, member: 590"] Parke Davis was a liar about the history of football. He pulled a typical college football fan move and created a false narrative that Princeton and Rutgers created the game, so that his school could have more glory than deserved. Yale and Harvard laughed and don't care. They let the smart people figure stuff out, I suppose. The early championships need to be recalculated and re-awarded. Parke Davis' word and championship selections are worthless. It's worse than a Helms championship. The game of gridiron football was created in New England (Boston [1874 and 1875], then New Haven [1875]), not New Jersey. If I am correct, at least some Princeton delegates saw The Game's first edition being played in 1875 and took news of this new football game back to Princeton. [/QUOTE]