First American Football Game Ever Filmed: 1903 Princeton Tigers vs Yale Bulldogs

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  • čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
  • This is the first ever American Football game to be filmed. It shows the two college football teams, Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs, battle it out for the collegiate championship on the 14th November 1903 in front of an estimated 50,000 fans.
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Komentáře • 113

  • @Hollowsmith
    @Hollowsmith Před 8 měsíci +51

    I was there that day. I was 4 years old born in 1899 currently I'm 124 years old and I can tell you that there were at least THREE missed holding calls in this game. Very disappointed with the officiating.

    • @SweetLemonlocks
      @SweetLemonlocks Před 8 měsíci +4

      The oldest person in the world is US-born Spaniard Maria Branyas at 118 years old. I regret to inform you that you are lying.

    • @SweetLemonlocks
      @SweetLemonlocks Před 8 měsíci +9

      I’m going to leave my reply but I realize you’re trolling and I took the bait like a big old catfish catching the scent of chicken liver after sunset

    • @Noah_wyatt0321
      @Noah_wyatt0321 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@SweetLemonlockswomp womp

    • @pirategamer6630
      @pirategamer6630 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@SweetLemonlocksyou avoided the wooosh. Good job.

    • @wyatt16
      @wyatt16 Před 5 měsíci

      @@SweetLemonlockswhy do you talk like that 😭

  • @dmtm1111
    @dmtm1111 Před 11 měsíci +27

    Can you imagine how they’d freak out if a modern offense lined up
    against them. The passing alone would freak them out.

    • @Prfdt3
      @Prfdt3 Před měsícem

      But I would rather watch the old ones.they respected the game.

    • @michaelwoods8299
      @michaelwoods8299 Před 8 dny

      ​@@Prfdt3That's such an insane take. It doesn't make the least bit of sense

  • @ohgloucak3211
    @ohgloucak3211 Před 3 měsíci +3

    0:46 my man came at them with a flying kick 🤣

  • @donmacdonald9861
    @donmacdonald9861 Před 4 lety +31

    If you ever played rugby you would easily see the early connection between the two sports . It was only after young players were continually seriously injured or killed and the cry went out to abolish the sport on campus. President Teddy Roosevelt was a fan though so he demanded changes to the rules . The field was narrowed ten yards and shortened ten yards and the forward pass came in . This was were rugby and football started to go their own ways . Incidentally Australian football is played to the original rules laid out over 150 years ago . Strange game to watch if you don't know the rules.

    • @usarugbyleagueunionfan
      @usarugbyleagueunionfan Před 2 lety +1

      I much prefer a Rugby League and Union over the NFL at this time. Too much stop start and drama in NFL

    • @Greenfield-yf1wh
      @Greenfield-yf1wh Před 8 měsíci +6

      It was literally called rugby. It has always been rugby. Then again, Rugby is a code of football so American went with the word football. Even though, their code of football doesn't even allow players to kick the ball in the game unless they attempt to score a point.

    • @undisclosed3863
      @undisclosed3863 Před 7 měsíci

      This is such good stuff. If you'll notice every play run was pretty much straight up the middle. There was a time where the rule was that you couldn't run a play essentially outside of where the lineman were lined up. That might not be the actual specific but that was the essence of it. This resulted in a lot of the injuries and deaths that occurred. So one rule change they made was that you could run the ball outside meaning a sweep play. Apparently this change had positive effect on the number if injuries and deaths. Since this is 1903 it would seem that the change was made after that. I know that the pass was legalized in 1906 but can't find the date that allowed for sweep plays.

    • @samd8669
      @samd8669 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@Greenfield-yf1wh It is called football because the standard ball was 1 foot long.

  • @historyarmyproductions
    @historyarmyproductions Před 4 lety +62

    Thats Super Interesting! Heres to 116 years of Football! 🥂

  • @jasonrhodes7047
    @jasonrhodes7047 Před 4 lety +69

    Looks like Michigan States current offense.

  • @toastnjam7384
    @toastnjam7384 Před 8 měsíci +9

    60 minutes of "Tush Push".

  • @SuperDSJGaming
    @SuperDSJGaming Před 10 měsíci +7

    These are always cool videos to watch but then I always get a a weird vibe because literally everybody on the screen is dead 😂

  • @michaelnewton1332
    @michaelnewton1332 Před 2 lety +17

    College GameDay at this game would have been lit!!!

    • @AvrilAlvarez
      @AvrilAlvarez Před rokem +5

      Id imagine theyd be talking alot of shit about the forward pass

  • @tonywalton1052
    @tonywalton1052 Před rokem +8

    Football was still more rugby then.

  • @shaneb.9458
    @shaneb.9458 Před 4 lety +140

    And look... The refs actually let them play football without calling a penalty on every play!! 🙃

  • @godof42ndstreet
    @godof42ndstreet Před 4 lety +19

    This is back when the refs had class and wore three-piece suits in the game.

  • @stuvo1977
    @stuvo1977 Před 10 měsíci +4

    The Big 10 played football like that until the 1990s.

  • @PrinceChaloner
    @PrinceChaloner Před 4 lety +25

    Dog pile at every down... 🤣🤣🤣

  • @paulbuono5088
    @paulbuono5088 Před 6 měsíci +4

    How did that ref miss all those neutral zone infractions??

  • @madqtofficial3451
    @madqtofficial3451 Před 4 lety +35

    To think that Football is over 100yrs old is blowing my mind

  • @MindOverManaX
    @MindOverManaX Před rokem +5

    This is what I like about the internet

  • @Айгуль123
    @Айгуль123 Před rokem +4

    Спасибо тому, кто придумал кинокамеру в то время! Пусть и качество ужасное, но мы хотя бы можем увидеть кусочек того времени, кусочек прошедшей эпоха..
    Thanks to whoever invented the movie camera at that time! Let the quality be terrible, but at least we can see a piece of that time, a piece of a bygone era ..🙏😔

  • @corycarreira9524
    @corycarreira9524 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Crazy how football looked before the "forward pass" was installed.. mostly scrums like rugby

    • @frankmerlino336
      @frankmerlino336 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Sometimes change is a good thing, this could certainly be fun to play, but to watch? HELL NO

  • @robertjack4329
    @robertjack4329 Před 7 měsíci

    The exact rule of being down a few years prior to this is when "forward movement of the ball is stopped, or if the player shall CRY down". Many players wouldn't 'cry down' right away, they'd continue to crawl forward, this would usually be stopped by defenders jumping on thier backs knee first.

  • @mjkingstudios
    @mjkingstudios Před 6 měsíci +1

    High kicks and everything 😂😁💪

  • @davidm4160
    @davidm4160 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Just think, most the people at that game did not have a car.

  • @robm321
    @robm321 Před 9 měsíci +1

    It's basically rugby

  • @coreyt4006
    @coreyt4006 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Was Brady playing QB?

  • @blaiseplaise
    @blaiseplaise Před 29 dny

    I'm late to the game, but wasn't the first game of football played in Canada....? I think it was in Montreal

  • @samnite3
    @samnite3 Před 4 lety +4

    I miss the days before targeting

  • @darryl3592
    @darryl3592 Před 5 měsíci

    Last time cowboys won a Super Bowl

  • @icio011
    @icio011 Před 4 lety +1

    Jonathan and Dio where in that match

  • @poetryinmotion-hs5cn
    @poetryinmotion-hs5cn Před rokem +1

    I thought this is supposed 2b "history colored " looks pretty black&white 2 me

  • @michaelthrasher1521
    @michaelthrasher1521 Před 4 lety

    You say film by Alfred C. Abadie for Thomas A. Edison Inc why wasn't there any credits saying Princeton Tigers vs Yale Bulldogs in the beginning of the film? It could be other teams played

  • @albertodelavega0973
    @albertodelavega0973 Před měsícem

    Football? When they kicked the ball?

  • @henriquefilho
    @henriquefilho Před rokem

    0:46 on the left side. A flying kick? Seriously?

  • @highpointdad2006
    @highpointdad2006 Před rokem +1

    Somebody throw a pass for crying out loud !

  • @kristalsivak5237
    @kristalsivak5237 Před 6 měsíci +1

    What

  • @prathimabhuthapati9609
    @prathimabhuthapati9609 Před 4 lety +2

    Love from India♥️

  • @Itsnoahscott
    @Itsnoahscott Před rokem

    “Good ol times” 👴🏻

  • @Lilpizzadj
    @Lilpizzadj Před 5 měsíci

    The only thing I like about over 100years of football is that the refs Dont know what they are doing.😂

  • @M1iguy
    @M1iguy Před 6 měsíci

    💯💯

  • @manutd22
    @manutd22 Před 4 lety

    please do one on english football

    • @jahno7154
      @jahno7154 Před 2 lety

      That would be a bit difficult unless he has a time travelling machine.

    • @manutd22
      @manutd22 Před 2 lety

      @@jahno7154 I'm sure they can do that in 2050

    • @jahno7154
      @jahno7154 Před 2 lety

      @@manutd22 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

  • @TunaminV1
    @TunaminV1 Před 4 lety +5

    All these people are dead.

    • @synretro
      @synretro Před 3 lety

      i'm 1000000% sure someone died on the field during these games.

    • @r4v3n5m4n14c52
      @r4v3n5m4n14c52 Před měsícem

      All of them probably before 2000

  • @CanePollFishermon
    @CanePollFishermon Před 8 měsíci

    I wonder who won that game, hell look like every time the ball was snapped they sacked the guy who received it. 😂 ok its the center and the quarter back.

  • @paultoy9611
    @paultoy9611 Před 4 lety +3

    Can you imagine if the speed and power of today's NFL had been released on any of those poor men at that time?! Total devastation.Talk about body bag games!!! That would've unleashed total mayhem before we'd been prepared for it by a century of tumult,war and internal strife.

    • @cashondeliver
      @cashondeliver Před 4 lety +2

      Back then you couldn’t pass
      So bring in all the 300 pound line man and make them run the ball 😂

    • @nominalize8162
      @nominalize8162 Před 2 lety +1

      @@cashondeliver plus you played ironman, so you had to be in shape for the whole game every game, and be skilled at at least two positions.

    • @michaelnewton1332
      @michaelnewton1332 Před 2 lety +2

      Back then, there were no pads and leather helmets. To there’s that factor.

  • @TheGd2812
    @TheGd2812 Před 10 měsíci

    It's rigged now

  • @johnmuzic3475
    @johnmuzic3475 Před rokem +2

    Good God a current top level College football player is 5 times their size and probably 20 times their strength..just one of them could run right over all of these guys single handedly...

    • @TheSpicyLeg
      @TheSpicyLeg Před 9 měsíci +2

      These guys wore little padding. Most of them were farm boys. They knew pain and knew it well. You’d be surprised how tough people used to be.

  • @haraldisdead
    @haraldisdead Před rokem

    Baseball>Football

  • @MoMo-ln3gd
    @MoMo-ln3gd Před rokem +1

    You mean tackle handball! Football is ⚽️ from the UK.

  • @VISCABARCAist
    @VISCABARCAist Před rokem

    Should be called Fakerugby not Football ⚽️

  • @jatorresh
    @jatorresh Před 4 lety +5

    make this the most liked comment on CZcams. Thanks

  • @mytube2013
    @mytube2013 Před 4 lety

    It is not colored ;-)