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Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution...

Timeline of Events

1873

10.19.1873

Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.

1939

5.17.1939

The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.

1968

4.23.1968

Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.