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Princeton University
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....
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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.