Turkey Day football began long before the whole country could watch the sport on TV. In fact, football wasn't even a professiona

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Turkey Day football began long before the whole country could watch the sport on TV. In fact, football wasn't even a professiona

l sport when the Thanksgiving game tradition took hold. The first ever Thanksgiving Day football match was between these two teams.

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Darya [45] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-30T23:48:36+03:00

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Turkey Day Football

The first ever Thanksgiving Day football match was between the teams from Yale and Princeton Universities.

Explanation:

Historically, the Pilgrims commenced US Thanksgiving celebrations in 1621, following the England custom. Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national holiday for Thanksgiving Day in 1863. The first ever football game on a Thanksgiving Day took place in Philadelphia in 1869. This was six whole years after Thanksgiving Day was declared a national holiday.