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Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

Timeline of Events

1746

10.22.1746

The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.

1869

11.6.1869

In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

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.