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Did you know…. According to the History Channel, Thanksgiving: A Timeline of the Holiday | HISTORY

November 30, 1876: First Thanksgiving Football Game

The very first Thanksgiving football game was played between Princeton and Yale in 1876. American football was in its infancy, but the sport and the Thanksgiving tradition quickly caught on. By 1893, 40,000 spectators showed up to watch the Princeton-Yale Thanksgiving game in New York’s Manhattan Field.

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