Each States first College Football game

Name one of the teams in each states first College Football game.
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State
Date
Team
Team
Location
Final Score
NJ
November 6, 1869
Rutgers
Princeton
College Avenue Field, New Brunswick, New Jersey
6–4
NY
November 2, 1872
Columbia
Rutgers
Union Base Ball Club Grounds, Tremont, New York
0–0
CT
November 16, 1872
Yale
Columbia
Hamilton Park, New Haven, Connecticut
3–0
VA
November 2, 1873
Washington and Lee
VMI
Lexington, Virginia
4–2
MA
May 14, 1874
McGill
Harvard
Jarvis Field, Cambridge, Massachusetts
0-3
ME
November 6, 1875
Bates
Tufts
Rand Field, Lewiston, Maine
1–0
PA
November 11, 1876
Penn
Princeton
Young America Cricket Club Grounds (Turnpike Bridge), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
6–0
IL
May 30, 1879
Racine College
Michigan
White-Stocking Park, Chicago, Illinois
0-1
MI
November 1, 1879
Michigan
Toronto
Recreation Park, Detroit, Michigan
0–0
KY
April 9, 1880
Transylvania
Centre
Stoll Field, Lexington, Kentucky
13¾–0
NH
November 17, 1881
Amherst
Dartmouth
Hanover, New Hampshire
0-1
MN
September 30, 1882
Hamline
Minnesota
King's Fair Ground, Minneapolis, Minnesota
4–0
MD
November 30, 1882
Navy
Johns Hopkins
Annapolis, Maryland
8–0
DC
November 20, 1883
Gallaudet
Georgetown
Kendall Green, Washington, D.C.
13–0
IN
May 31, 1884
DePauw
Butler
7th Street Base Ball Park, Indianapolis, Indiana
0-16
CO
April 11, 1885
Colorado College
Denver
Athletic Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado
12–0
VT
November 6, 1886
Vermont
Dartmouth
Burlington, Vermont
91–0
NC
October 18, 1888
North Carolina
Wake Forest
State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, North Carolina
4-6
WI
November 29, 1888
Racine College
Lake Forest
Racine, Wisconsin
6–4
OH
December 8, 1888
Cincinnati
Miami (OH)
Old Main lawn, Oxford, Ohio
0–0
SD
May 3, 1889
South Dakota State
South Dakota
Sioux Falls Fairgrounds, Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory
6–6
CA
1889
USC
Loyola Marymount
Los Angeles, California
40–0
RI
October 23, 1889
Brown
Tufts
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
16–0
IA
November 16, 1889
Grinnell
Iowa
Field on South Campus, Grinnell, Iowa
24–0
SC
December 14, 1889
Wofford
Furman
Encampment Grounds, Spartanburg, South Carolina
5–1
DE
October 11, 1890
Delaware
Swarthmore (Sophomores)
Newark, Delaware
30–0
KS
November 22, 1890
Baker
Kansas
Baldwin City, Kansas
22–9
MO
November 27, 1890
Washington (MO)
Missouri
Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, Missouri
28–0
TN
November 27, 1890
Vanderbilt
Nashville
Athletic Park, Nashville, Tennessee
40–0
WA
January 24, 1891
Washington College
Washington
Tacoma Base Ball Park, Tacoma, Washington
6–6
NE
February 14, 1891
Doane
Nebraska
Field "west of the reservoir", Crete, Nebraska
18–0
WV
November 28, 1891
West Virginia
Washington & Jefferson
Show Lot, Morgantown, West Virginia
72–0
GA
January 30, 1892
Georgia
Mercer
Herty Field, Athens, Georgia
50–0
UT
November 25, 1892
Utah State
Utah
The Quad, Logan, Utah Territory
12–0
AL
February 22, 1893
Alabama
Auburn
Lakeview Park, Birmingham, Alabama
22-32
OR
November 3, 1893
Western Oregon
Pacific (OR)
Monmouth, Oregon
53–0
MS
November 11, 1893
Mississippi
Union (TN)
University Athletic Park, Oxford, Mississippi
56–0
LA
November 25, 1893
LSU
Tulane
Crescent City Base Ball Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
0-34
NM
January 1, 1894
New Mexico
New Mexico State
Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory
18–6
TX
October 19, 1894
Texas
Texas A&M
Hyde Park Racetrack, Austin, Texas
38–0
ND
November 3, 1894
North Dakota
North Dakota State
Grand Forks, North Dakota
24–6
ID
November 18, 1894
Idaho
Washington State
Moscow Baseball Grounds, Moscow, Idaho
10–0
WY
November 25, 1895
Wyoming
Northern Colorado
Prexy's Pasture, Laramie, Wyoming
34–0
OK
February 1, 1896
Bacone
Tulsa
Muskogee, Indian Territory
Forfeit W
NV
November 28, 1896
California (Junior Varsity)
Nevada
Reno, Nevada
40–0
MT
November 12, 1897
Montana
Butte Business College
Missoula, Montana
20–4
AR
November 25, 1897
Ouachita Baptist
Arkansas
Arkadelphia, Arkansas
24–0
AZ
November 30, 1899
Arizona
Arizona State
Carrillo Gardens, Tucson, Arizona Territory
11–2
FL
November 22, 1901
Stetson
Florida Agricultural College (Florida)
North Main St. Fairgrounds, Jacksonville, Florida
6-0
HI
December 25, 1920
Hawaii
Nevada
Alexander Field, Honolulu, Hawaii Territory
14–0
AK
January 1, 1949
Alaska–Fairbanks
Ladd Air Force Base
Fairbanks, Alaska Territory
0–0
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