Today's Tidbit... The Case Of The Missing Goal Posts

Football's origin story is that Princeton and Rutgers played the first game in 1869. That game involved 25 players per side kicking and batting a round ball with the ultimate aim of kicking the ball between two posts at either end of a field at Rutgers. The team met again a week later on a Princeton field with goals at either end.

The proximity of the schools encouraged them to keep playing over the years. Princeton leads the series 53-7-1, though Rutgers went 10-3-1 from 1968 to 1980. During the...