The Cincinnati Bearcats play for the University of Cincinnati and its football team is one of the nation’s oldest.
They started in football in 1885, playing against athletic clubs in the area. Three years later, in 1888, Cincinnati University had their first intercollegiate football game playing against a team of students from Miami University.
There are only four football programs in the NCAA Division I-A which are older than Cincinnati’s wich are: Rutgers, Michigan, Navy and Minnesota.
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