The 1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game was a two-game series between the Harvard Crimson and the McGill Redmen held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 14 and 15, 1874. With the first game being played under the Harvard's "Boston rules", the second one was the first rugby-style football game played in the United States. It used three periods or "games" and ended in a scoreless tie. A Princeton vs. Rutgers football game had been played five years earlier (in 1869), but under a variation of England's The Football Association rules, closer to contemporary soccer than American football.