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A quarrel over the eligibility rules broke up the old Intercollegiate Association in 1890, and terminated this formerly happy union. Several attempts were made to reconstruct this association in different forms, but all failed.
In these years terminates the monopoly of Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale in football interest, for a number of colleges in this period sent their first teams afield. Among these early aristocrats of the sport are Brown, Dartmouth, Lawrenceville, Lafayette, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams. An important feature of the...
The open game of much passing, running and kicking was prevalent in these days, and its effacement was unintentionally caused by the lowering of the tackling limit from the waist to the knees. With this change dodging backs no longer could make continuous gains in an open field. This introduced...
In 1892 the flying wedge was introduced at the Harvard-Yale game of that year, and, although it is now abolished, it remains one of the most striking plays ever devised. Old fashions of the game still tarried on, and the long hair supposedly necessary for all players is one...
The season of 1896 brought with it a return to parliamentary football peace. A Rules Committee had been formed, whose authority was acceptable to the colleges of the country, and this body soon legislated out of existence the momentum mass plays.