1873 in Sports - American Football

American Football

College championship

  • College football national championship – Princeton Tigers

Events

  • 19 October — representatives of Yale Bulldogs, Columbia Lions, Princeton Tigers and Rutgers Scarlet Knights meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City to codify the first set of intercollegiate football rules.

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