Events leading up to the game were described by John W. Herbert, Rutgers '72, who was one of the players: "To appreciate this game to the full you must know something of its background," Herbert wrote in The rivalry between them was intense. For years each had striven for possession of an old Revolutionary cannon, making night forays and lugging it back and forth time and again. Not long before the first football game, the canny Princetonians had settled this competition in their own favor by ignominiously sinking the gun in several feet of concrete.
In addition to this, I regret to report, Princeton had beaten Rutgers in baseball by the harrowing score of Rutgers longed for a chance to square things. Three games were to be played that year. The first played at New Brunswick and won by Rutgers. Princeton won the second game, but cries of "over-emphasis" prevented the third game in football's first year when faculties of both institutions protested on the grounds that the games were interfering with student studies.
Herbert gave this detailed account of the play in the first game: "Though smaller on the average, the Rutgers players, as it developed, had ample speed and fine football sense. Receiving the ball, our men formed a perfect interference around it and with short, skillful kicks and dribbles drove it down the field.
Taken by surprise, the Princeton men fought valiantly, but in five minutes we had gotten the ball through to our captains on the enemy's goal and S. Gano, '71 and G. Dixon, '73, neatly kicked it over. None thought of it, so far as I know, but we had without previous plan or thought evolved the play that became famous a few years later as 'the flying wedge'. Herbert then related that his teammates failed to note a conference the Princeton's captain was holding with the giant of the Tiger team, J.
Michael, '71, known to his mates as "Big Mike. It was our turn for surprise. The Princeton battering ram made no attempt to reach the ball but, forerunner of the interference-breaking ends of today, threw himself into our mass play, bursting us apart, and bowing us over.
The Dawgs scored the game's final three touchdowns. Bennett found star freshman tight end Brock Bowers for a yard score with to play. On Georgia's prior possession, Bennett hooked up with Adoni Mitchell for an astounding yard touchdown on a free play created by an offsides penalty on the Tide. Alabama went with a pass-heavy attack despite leading most of the game as Young finished 35 of 57 for yards with a touchdown and two picks. It's the first time in his career that Young finished a game with more interceptions thrown than touchdowns.
However, Young was without his top two pass catchers for most of the game due to another significant injury suffered in this second Alabama-Georgia meeting of the season. Bama booted field goals of 37, 45 and 37 yards in the first half. However, Williams -- Bama's leading receiver -- suffered a non-contact knee injury on his catch, leaving the Tide shorthanded for the duration of the contest. Georgia connected on kicks of 24 and 49 yards to trail at halftime.
Bennett linked up with George Pickens on a deep post for 52 yards to create their team's first field goal and its best play of the opening 20 minutes.
Young committed the game's first major miscue early in the third quarter as he sailed a pass intercepted by Georgia's Christopher Smith at the Bama He responded by driving the Tide down the field on the next possession only for Georgia's defense to come up big again by blocking a yard field goal attempt. A yard run by James Cook, the longest allowed by the Tide since , put the Dawgs into the red zone.
They found paydirt later for the first touchdown — and their first lead -- of the game as Zamir White rumbled into the end zone to give Georgia a lead. On the next possession, Young found Agiye Hall, who dropped a key pass on the prior drive, for 28 yards down to the UGA 5; however, Alabama stalled again and kicked its fourth field goal of the game from 21 yards out.
Bennett gave the Tide the ball back a couple plays later in the fourth quarter as he fumbled while being sacked on third down. Defensive back Brian Branch, scooping up a ball he thought was an incomplete pass, lucked into a fumble recovery with Alabama taking over at the UGA Young hooked up with Latu for a 3-yard TD reception, putting the Tide back on top after a failed two-point conversion.
The Dawgs took off from there, responding with Mitchell's touchdown, extending their lead to eight points on the back of Bowers' score and then clinching their national championship win with the game-ending pick six.
Recruiting matters: At least, it does when you want to win national titles. Georgia winning its crown Monday didn't happen by accident. There's one thing Kirby Smart learned coaching under Saban that was more important than any schematic advantage: The most brilliant coach on the planet can't win a national title with good players.
You need great ones. That's why recruiting has been a priority at Georgia since Smart took over. Smart's first season at Georgia in saw him bring in a class ranked sixth nationally in the Sports Composite.
He's never hauled in a group ranked lower than fourth in the five classes since. New Jersey got revenge with an victory. While these games looked nothing like what we see Saturdays these days, they sparked an interest in football and are a huge reason why the sport we know and love today exists.
FBS Football. The first American football game ever was played Nov. Bennett made up for his fumble by finding Adonai Mitchell in the end zone for a yard touchdown in tight coverage to put Georgia back in front at with remaining. After a three-and-out by Alabama, Bennett capped a seven-play, yard drive with a yard touchdown pass to Brock Bowers to increase the lead to and put Georgia away from a national championship — while also cementing Bennett's selection as offensive player of the game.
Georgia defensive back Lewis Cine earned the honor on the other side of the ball, racking up seven tackles. Kelee Ringo then intercepted Young and returned it 79 yards for a pick-six that sealed the victory for Georgia and denied Alabama a second straight title.
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