1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game

1922 Princeton Tigers vs. Chicago Maroons football game
Princeton Tigers Chicago Maroons
(4–0) (3–0)
21 18
Head coach: 
Bill Roper		 Head coach: 
Amos Alonzo Stagg
1234 Total
Princeton 07014 21
Chicago 6660 18
DateOctober 28, 1922
Season1922
StadiumStagg Field
LocationChicago, Illinois
RefereeVic Schwartz (Brown)
Attendance31,000

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Tigers Humble Chicago, 21–18, By Long Passes". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 29, 1922. p. 2. Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "October 28, 1922: The First National Radio Broadcast of College Football".
  4. ^ Chuck Sudo. "89 Years Ago Today, College Football Entered the Radio Age". Archived from the original on November 5, 2017.
  5. ^ 1922 Princeton University football scores and results Archived July 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 18, 2013.
  6. ^ Mark Bernstein (2009). Princeton Football. pp. 50–51. ISBN 9780738565842.