OT: Upcoming (in 2019) 150yr anniversary of 1st football game ever. Can a rematch be made to happen?

in a football game- incredible!

150 years of college football is amazing- and worth celebrating.

Lou Holtz can speak about what it was like being in attendance at that game.

It been downhill for Rutgers since.

If we want to celebrate the 150th anniversary of american football then we'll probably have to wait until 2024, when Harvard played the first rugby style football match in america vs McGill University from Canada, or possibly a year later between Harvard and Tufts, two American univeristies playing under more codified rules.

Both Rugby and Soccer matches were becoming popular in England and east coast American univerisities began trying them out. Rutgers v Princeton wasn't an american or rugby style football game by any stretch of the imagination. It should be celebrated as one of the first intercolegiate sporting rivalries, possibly, or the birth of soccer in America. They played 25 v 25 soccer matches, where you couldn't handle the ball, and scored single points by kicking a ball into a goal.

Harvard v McGill was a game where 11 players faced 11 players, carried the ball, and points were scored through tries or touchdowns, and later matches evolved into the game we love watching on fall Saturdays.

The "Boston style" game Harvard played was so vastly different that they refused to attend when a group of East Coast schools assembled to set official rules for the style of game Princeton and Rutgers played, and it made scheduling opponents difficult because they were completely different games.

This is a rather loose definiton of "upcoming".  I'll try to remember this thread in November 2019.

that a win over Princeton would count for Bowl eligiblity (Princeton doesn't give out enough scholarships --- because, of course, they don't give out any athletic scholarships --- for that to be a "countable" win against an FCS foe).

But, if they get that, why not?  150 years of college football is definitely worth celebrating.  Just as long as Rutgers doesn't do something like lose to Princeton.  Not impossible with them!

It all started with Princeton's head football coach Fritz Crisler

And when Fritz Crisler became head football coach and athletic director at Michigan in 1938, the world's most famous college football helmet began its legendary career. Go Blue!

its 140th anniversary of its 1st football game with a rematch against Racine College.  That would be a barnburner!  That 1879 game was a defensive battle: 1-0.

Racine closing its doors in 1887 has made recruiting difficult - but they may play us more competitively than Rutgers...