The next day, May 15, 1874, Harvard and McGill played to a scoreless tie in the first organized intercollegiate football game under rugby rules.
The first organized intercollegiate football game in Illinois played by teams from the state occurred November 11, 1882, when Lake Forest defeated Northwestern 1–0 on the Campus Meadow in Evanston.
[29] The first organized football game in Maryland involving a college occurred December 11, 1879 when Navy and the Baltimore Athletic Club played to a scoreless tie on the "superintendent's cow pasture" in Annapolis.
The first "scientific game" occurred on Thanksgiving of the same year when North Carolina played Duke (then Trinity) at Raleigh Athletic Park.
The first organized American football game in California involving a college occurred January 16, 1886 when Cal defeated a club team called the Wasps 20–2 at West Field in Berkeley.
[58] However, by November 1889 intercollegiate games had already been played west of the Mississippi River in Colorado and Dakota Territory, and possibly in California.
As a technical matter, the first intercollegiate game played west of the Mississippi River was the 1882 contest between Minnesota and Hamline.
[66] The first organized football game in Missouri involving a college occurred on December 3, 1887 when Washington (MO) defeated the University Club 14–4 at Union Park in St.
[86] The first organized football game in Louisiana involving a college occurred November 18, 1893 when Southern Athletic Club defeated Tulane 12–0 in New Orleans.
[121] Henderson State claims this as an organized game and dates the beginning of both its football program and the Battle of the Ravine to 1895.
[132] However, Oahu College was never a postsecondary school and the University of Hawaii records its first intercollegiate football game as the 1920 contest against Nevada.