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The State University of Iowa began playing American football as a club sport in 1872 but it was not until 1889 that Iowa challenged Grinnell College then-known as Iowa College to a game of football. On November 16 1889; the two teams met in Grinnell to play the first game of intercollegiate football west of the Mississippi River.

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