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Nearly 150 years later, both Princeton and Rutgers still play football, although the two schools have not played one another since 1980. Since that first game was played, using rugby-style rules, Americans have seen the invention of the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, the television, and the com- puter. College football was here before all of those cre- ations, and it is more popular today than it has ever been.

Pageantry The game on the field has all of the same rules as the game that is played on Sundays in the NFL, with a few minor exceptions (e.g., a receiver needs to have only one foot in bounds while making a catch in college football, as opposed to both feet in the NFL).

College football has become a colorful ritual for millions of people each fall weekend.

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