College football game
| 1922 Princeton Tigers vs. Chicago Maroons football game |
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 |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Total |
| Princeton |
0 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
21 |
| Chicago |
6 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
18 |
|
| Date | October 28, 1922 |
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| Season | 1922 |
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| Stadium | Stagg Field |
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| Location | Chicago, Illinois |
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| Referee | Vic Schwartz (Brown) |
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| Attendance | 31,000 |
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The 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game, played October 28, 1922, was a college football game between the Princeton Tigers and University of Chicago Maroons. The "hotly contested"[1][2] match-up was the first game to be broadcast nationwide on radio.[1][3][4] Princeton's team won, 21–18. It was to be the national champion of 1922,[5] and in this game received its nickname, "Team of Destiny", from Grantland Rice.[6]
- ^ a b History.com staff (October 28, 2009). "Princeton-Chicago football game is broadcast across the country". History.com. A+E Networks. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
- ^ "Tigers Humble Chicago, 21–18, By Long Passes". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 29, 1922. p. 2. Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "October 28, 1922: The First National Radio Broadcast of College Football".
- ^ Chuck Sudo. "89 Years Ago Today, College Football Entered the Radio Age". Archived from the original on November 5, 2017.
- ^ 1922 Princeton University football scores and results Archived July 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 18, 2013.
- ^ Mark Bernstein (2009). Princeton Football. pp. 50–51. ISBN 9780738565842.
