January 1, 1926: Coral Gables Stadium hosts an unprecedented college football exhibition

In today’s episode of This Day in Miami History, the notion that Coral Gables would never host a college football stadium is dispelled. In 1926, it housed two. And Coral Gables Stadium featured a matchup of national champions, pitting the 1922 Princeton Tigers against the 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and the Four Horsemen.

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