Personal Narrative: My First College Sport

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On November 6, 1869, the first college football game was played by two college students from Rutgers and Princeton. It wasn’t until the 1880s that the game was given actual rules and regulations by a great Rugby player from Yale named Walter Camp. He slowly transformed Rugby into a new game we know now as American football.
My favorite sport is American football. My first time watching an actual game was when the Seahawks played the 49ers. At the time, I was just picking a random team that was playing trying to fit in with my mother and sisters, but as the game went on I realized that I liked the environment when the football game is on. The people are mostly all happy, and I like that. It’s like going to a funny movie and everyone laughs at

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