To address this growing practice, and to restore integrity to the game, at its December 1868 meeting the NABBP established a professional category for the 1869 season.

The first ever intercollegiate football game between two American teams played under rules which would eventually become the rules under which modern American football is governed occurred between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869.

The game played between teams from Rutgers University and Princeton University, which was called the College of New Jersey at the time, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field, which is now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The 1869 game between Rutgers and Princeton is important in that it is the first documented game of something called intercollegiate " football " ever played between two American colleges, and because of this, Rutgers refers to itself as The Birthplace of College Football.

* 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.

The first U. S. match known to have been inspired by FA rules was a game between Princeton University and Rutgers University on November 6, 1869, which was won by Rutgers 6-4.

The Hamilton football club played their first game on December 18, 1869 against the 13th Battalion ( now Royal Hamilton Light Infantry ).

The professional Cincinnati Red Stockings played their first game May 4, 1869, with a 45-9 win over the Great Westerns of Cincinnati.

The Red Stockings toured the continent undefeated in 1869 and may have been the strongest team in 1870, but the club dropped professional base ball after the second season, its fourth in the game.

The first intercollegiate football game, in which Rutgers beat Princeton by a score of 6 – 4 on November 6, 1869, was played at College Field, which is now the location of the College Avenue Gymnasium and its parking lot.

It was the first time Rutgers had defeated Princeton since the first ever intercollegiate football game in 1869.

Lord Lansdowne claimed that in 1869 Major Wingfield gave a demonstration of the game to him in the garden of his Berkeley Square house, although in that year Wingfield was not a major.

In The modern game of lawn tennis was invented in Edgbaston by Augurio Perera and Harry Gem. 1867 the patent for a new type of Direct-acting Steam Pump is acquired, in 1869 Tangye Ltd is commissioned to design the hydraulic systems for the UK's first funicular cliff railway in Scarborough, North Yorkshire and in 1870 the company commences the manufacture of steam engines.

Also, The Daily Targum, one of the oldest college papers in the United States, was first published ( 1869 ), the Rutgers Glee Club was formed ( 1872 ), and the first intercollegiate athletic games were held, most notably, the first game of College football between Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ).

McVey was directly in the middle of the most controversial game of the Red Stockings ' reported 84-game winning streak, 1869 and 1870.

Drawing from the 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game | first football game played between Rutgers and Princeton

On November 6, 1869, Rutgers University faced Princeton University in a game that was played with a round ball and like all early games used improvised rules that had as many similarities to rugby and soccer as to the American game of the next century.

The first intercollegiate football game between teams from Rutgers College ( now Rutgers University ) and the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field ( now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University ) in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

To address this growing practice, and to restore integrity to the game, at its December 1868 meeting the NABBP established a professional category for the 1869 season.

The latter were undefeated, with victories over all of the leading clubs ( including ultimate 1868 and 1869 champions Mutual and Atlantic ), but they never faced a reigning champion in a deciding game, partly because in scheduling tours of continental scope they practically opted out.

The intercollegiate soccer in the U. S. took place on November 6, 1869, in New Brunswick, N. J., when clubs from Princeton and Rutgers played under rules modified from those of Association Football.

* 1869 – John Heisman, American football player and coach ( d. 1936 )

* October 3 – John Heisman, American football coach ( b. 1869 )

* The 1871 college football season is the only one since the first season in 1869 until the present day that no games are played in the entire season.

The club's foundation dates back to the very earliest days of organised football in Scotland, when a group of local cricketers looking for a sporting pursuit to occupy them outwith the cricket season formed a football club in 1869.

Dumbarton Football Club is Scotland's 4th oldest football club – founded in 1872, just after Queen's Park ( 1867 ), Kilmarnock ( 1869 ) and Stranraer ( 1870 ).

In 1869 some of these decided to form the Hotham Football Club that later became a foundation member of the VFA ( Australian rules football ) today known as the North Melbourne Kangaroos.

In 1869, the founding of Hamilton Football Club, who played what would become Canadian football, helped make that sport the dominant football code in Canada by the dawn of the twentieth century.

As early as 1869 the Royal Engineers football club is documented in a contemporary match report as having " worked well together " and " had learned the secret of football success-backing up ".

* Josh Hartwell ( 1869 – 1940 ), 19th century American college football coach

Dr. Henry Lane Williams ( July 26, 1869 – June 14, 1931 ) was an American football player and coach.

John William Heisman ( October 23, 1869 – October 3, 1936 ) was an American player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball.

* is the name of three different US warships between 1869 and 1972

The final blow was the Suez Canal, opened in 1869, which provided a great shortcut for steamships between Europe and Asia, but was difficult for sailing ships to use.

One of the more famous examples is the painting Degas's Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans Playing the Guitar by Edgar Degas, which was painted sometime between 1869 – 72 and is currently owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Rising tensions in 1869 about the possible candidacy of Prince Leopold von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen to the throne of Spain caused a rise in the scale of animosity between France and Germany.

A treaty was signed at Aliwal in 1869 between the British and the Boer defining the boundaries of the protectorate, the arable land west of the Caledon River remained in Boer hands and is referred to as the Lost or Conquered Territory.

The political rivalry between Liberals and Colorados was presaged as early as 1869 when the terms Azules ( Blues ) and Colorados ( Reds ) first appeared.

In a long series of experiments in 1869 to 1871, he transfused the blood between dissimilar breeds of rabbits, and examined the features of their offspring.

He used the term as early as 1871, while in 1869, Thomas Muir, then of the University of St Andrews, vacillated between rad, radial and radian.

The removals occurred in the period between approximately 1869 and 1969, although in some places children were still being taken until the 1970s.

Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows transportation by water between Europe and Asia without navigation around Africa.

Before the canal's opening in 1869 goods were sometimes offloaded from ships and carried overland between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 created the first salt-water passage between the Mediterranean and Red seas.

* Online archive of Scientific American between 1846 and 1869, from Cornell University

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

In 1870, a schism developed between professional and amateur ballplayers, after the 1869 founding of the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

The city walls were torn down between 1869 and 1889, efforts for a planned expansion of the city are evident as early as 1879, the first tram service started in 1888 and the city streets were illuminated with electric lamp posts in 1908.

In vain, the King urged Conservative leaders Balfour and Lord Lansdowne to pass the Budget ( Lord Esher advised that this was not unusual, as Queen Victoria had helped to broker agreement between the two Houses over Irish disestablishment in 1869 and the Third Reform Act in 1884 ), although on Asquith's advice he did not offer them an election ( at which, to judge from recent by-elections, they were likely to gain seats ) as a reward for doing so.

The world's First Transcontinental Railroad was built between 1863 and 1869 to join the eastern and western halves of the United States.

* The rails of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " were joined on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, after track was laid over a gap between Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska / Council Bluffs, Iowa in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.