Factoid 49 - College Football in the 19th Century (Part One)

The 19th century saw the first college games played between Princeton and Rutgers in 1869 and would end with 90 schools (Division 1) having football teams. Did your team start in the 19th century? Search the list below:

1869: Princeton Tigers and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.

1870 - 1879: Columbia Lions; Yale Bulldogs; Harvard Crimson; Penn Quakers; Brown Bears; Navy Midshipmen; UMass Minutemen; and the Michigan Wolverines.

1880 - 1889: Dartmouth Big Green; Northwestern Wildcats; Minnesota Golden Gophers; Cincinnati Bearcats; California Golden Bears; Cornell Big Red; Indiana Hoosiers; Notre Dame Fighting Irish; Purdue Boilermakers; USC Trojans; Duke Blue Devils; North Carolina Tar Heels; Wake Forest Demon Deacons; Miami Red Hawks; Penn State Nittany Lions; Virginia Cavaliers; Iowa Hawkeyes; Syracuse Orange; Pittsburgh Panthers; Washington Huskies; and the Wisconsin Badgers.

1890 - 1899: Colorado Buffaloes; Illinois Fighting Illini; Kansas Jayhawks; Ole Miss Rebels; Missouri Tigers; Nebraska Cornhuskers; Army Black Knights; Ohio State Buckeyes; Vanderbilt Commodores; Eastern Michigan Eagles; Akron Zips; Tennessee Volunteers; West Virginia Mountaineers; Alabama Crimson Tide; Auburn Tigers; San Jose State Spartans; Stanford Cardinal; Georgia Bulldogs; Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets; Iowa State Cyclones; Kentucky Wildcats; Maryland Terrapins; Boston College Eagles; New Mexico Lobos; NC State Wolfpack; South Carolina Gamecocks; Utah Utes; Utah State Aggies; Virginia Tech Hokies; Wyoming Cowboys; Colorado State Rams; Idaho Vandals; LSU Tigers; Tulane Green Wave; Oregon State Beavers; Texas Longhorns; Washington State Cougars; Arkansas Razorbacks; New Mexico State Aggies; Buffalo Bulls; Ohio Bobcats; Oregon Ducks; Temple Owls; Texas A&M Aggies; Mississippi State Bulldogs; Oklahoma Sooners; Tulsa Golden Hurricane; Marshall Thundering Herd; Connecticut Huskies; Kansas State Wildcats; Central Michigan Chippewas; Michigan State Spartans; Nevada Wolf Pack; Clemson Tigers; TCU Horned Frogs; Arizona State Sun Devils; Baylor Bears; Arizona Wildcats; and Northern Illinois Huskies.

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