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Fifty years ago this month the first intercollegiate football game in this country was played at New Brunswick, N. J., between Rutgers and Princeton...
...game which takes place in the Stadium represents an interesting contrast to the game which Harvard played 45 years ago against McGill University. This game, played on Jarvis Field in May, 1874, was the first intercollegiate contest under Rugby rules. It resulted in a scoreless tie. Although these two teams had met the day before, the game on the 15th was the first of interest, owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that day, that "under...
From the squad statistics we find that although the University men are 2 inches taller than the Elis they weigh 1 pound less. In ago the Yale squad averages slightly younger than Harvard. The figures are: Harvard--Age 21 years, 4 months; weight 178 pounds; height, 6 feet, 1-2 inch. Yale--Age 21; weight 179; and height 5 feet, 10 1-2 inches...
...generally known that the N. C. flying boats which not long ago accomplished the successful trans-Atlantic flight, were the first heavier-than-air machines in this country to be equipped with electric self-starters for each of their big Liberty engine motors...
...Harvard team will go on the field a favorite, its goal-line uncrossed except by Princeton two weeks ago. The Bulldog, on the contrary, is considerably the worse for wear; the claw-marks of the Tiger have not yet healed. Yet for that reason Yale, always a fighting organization, will fight harder than ever. It is Harvard's job to smother the grim, determined blue-jerseyed eleven, and we have faith that the Harvard machine can do it. The Crimson team has the driving, smashing power of a locomotive. Whether Yale can stop it remains to be seen...