First College Football Game Ever, Princeton vs. Rutgers Re-e

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First College Football Game Ever, Princeton vs. Rutgers Re-enactment celebration at Charter Day 1946
‪Charter Day, October 19, 1946 (Newsreel)‬ From princeton campuslife
From the Princeton University Archives: Newsreel about the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the university being granted a charter. The newsreel covers the academic procession for the convocation, during which twenty-three people received an honorary degree, including 
Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations (1:42), Walter E. Edge, Governor of New Jersey (2:11), Niels Bohr , Salvador De Madariaga, and Jacques Maritain (2:21). The news reel continues with a Rutgers-Princeton football game (2:47), and a reenactment of the first Rutgers-Princeton game in 1869 (5:51). The festivities were part of the bicentennial celebrations of 1946-1947.
‪http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/...‬
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