Year 1968 Created 1968 | Type oil painting Dimensions 95 cm x 1.5 m Media Oil paint | |
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Subject 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game Similar Princeton Battle Monument, Tales of the Force, The Prayer at Valley Forge | ||
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The First Game is a painting by Arnold Friberg, and was commissioned in 1968 by Chevrolet Motor Division as one of four paintings to commemorate the then-upcoming centennial celebration of college football in the United States. It depicts the famous first game of American intercollegiate football, played by Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and the visiting College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) on November 6, 1869, at College Field in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The game was played in front of approximately 100 spectators, including a Rutgers professor who is reported to have waved his umbrella at the participants while yelling, "You will come to no Christian end!" Friberg included the man with the umbrella in the painting as a tribute.