November 24, 2015

College Football Belt Backlog: The definitive (I believe) trail from Rutgers-Princeton 1869 to Nebraska-Alabama 1972, this proves that the College Football Belt site starts with the right team.

This is how bored I was at work today. Starting at the first recognized college football game (Rutgers vs. Princeton, November 6th, 1869) and using the nearly complete records or SportsReference.com, I traced the lineal College Football Belt through the 1972 Orange Bowl, after which point the good people at College Football Belt start up.

Rutgers				11/6/1869

Princeton			11/13/1869

Yale				11/30/1876

Princeton			11/28/1878

Harvard				11/18/1882

Yale				11/25/1882

Princeton			11/21/1885

Harvard				11/12/1887

Yale				11/24/1887

Princeton			11/28/1889

Yale				11/27/1890

Princeton			11/30/1893

Penn				11/10/1894

Lafayette			10/24/1896

Penn				10/23/1897

Harvard				11/05/1898

Yale				11/24/1900

Harvard				11/23/1901

Yale				11/22/1902

Princeton			11/14/1903

Navy				10/15/1904

Swarthmore			10/29/1904

Penn				10/7/1905

Swarthmore			10/13/1906

Navy				11/10/1906

Harvard				10/19/1907

Carlisle			11/9/1907

Harvard				11/7/1908

Yale				11/20/1909

Army				10/15/1910

Harvard				10/29/1910

Princeton			11/4/1911

Harvard				11/2/1912

Cornell				10/23/1915

Harvard				10/28/1916

Brown				11/18/1916

Colgate				11/25/1916

Brown				10/27/1917

Syracuse			11/3/1917

Michigan			11/16/1918

Ohio State			10/25/1919

Illinois			11/22/1919

Wisconsin			11/13/1920

Chicago				11/19/1921

Princeton			10/28/1922

Notre Dame			10/20/1923

Nebraska			11/10/1923

Syracuse			11/24/1923

West Virginia Wesleyan		11/8/1924

West Virginia			10/24/1925

Missouri			10/30/1926

Oklahoma			11/6/1926

Kansas				11/11/1926

Missouri			11/20/1926

SMU				10/22/1927

Texas A&M			11/5/1927

Centenary			10/13/1928

Baylor				10/20/1928

Texas				11/10/1928

TCU				11/16/1929

Texas				11/15/1930

Rice				10/10/1931

SMU				10/17/1931

St Mary\\\\\\\'s			12/5/1931

Fordham				11/5/1932

St Mary\\\\\\\'s			11/4/1933

Oregon				11/30/1933

Washington			10/13/1934

Stanford			11/10/1934

Alabama				1/1/1935

Mississippi State		10/12/1935

LSU				11/9/1935

TCU				1/1/1936

Texas Tech			9/26/1936

Wichita State			10/9/1936

St Louis			10/31/1936

Missouri			11/7/1936

Colorado			10/2/1937

Rice				1/1/1938

Oklahoma			10/1/1938

Tennessee			1/2/1939

USC				1/1/1940

Stanford			10/26/1940

Oregon State			10/11/1941

Washington State		10/25/1941

Texas A&M			12/6/1941

Alabama				1/1/1942

Georgia				10/31/1942

Auburn				11/21/1942

Georgia Tech			10/14/1944

Duke				11/4/1944

Navy				10/6/1945

Army				12/1/1945

Columbia			10/25/1947

Harvard				10/2/1948

Cornell				10/9/1948

Army				10/23/1948

Navy				12/2/1950

Princeton			10/6/1951

Penn				10/11/1952

Penn State			11/1/1952

Syracuse			11/8/1952

Alabama				1/1/1953

Southern Mississippi		9/18/1953

Memphis				10/31/1953

Arkansas State			11/7/1953

Mississippi State		10/2/1954	???

Miami				10/15/1954

Auburn				11/6/1954

Tulane				10/29/1955

Vanderbilt			11/12/1955

Tennessee			11/26/1955

Baylor				1/1/1957

Miami				10/5/1957

North Carolina			10/11/1957

Maryland			10/19/1957

Tennessee			10/26/1957

Mississippi			11/16/1957

LSU				11/1/1958

Tennessee			11/7/1959

Mississippi			11/14/1959

LSU				11/4/1961

Mississippi			11/3/1962

Alabama				1/1/1964

Texas				1/1/1965

Arkansas			10/16/1965

LSU				1/1/1966

Rice				9/24/1966

Tennessee			10/1/1966

Georgia Tech			10/8/1966

Georgia				11/26/1966

Mississippi			10/14/1967

Tennessee			11/18/1967

Oklahoma			1/1/1968

Notre Dame			9/21/1968

Purdue				9/28/1968

Ohio State			10/12/1968

Michigan			11/22/1969

USC				1/1/1970

Stanford			10/10/1970

Air Force			11/14/1970

Colorado			11/21/1970

Tulane				12/12/1970

Georgia				9/18/1971

Auburn				11/13/1971

Alabama				11/27/1971

Nebraska			1/1/1972

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