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It was in the first of two games that fall against the University of Pennsylvania that Princeton first appeared in jerseys of alternate orange and black stripes, thereby suggesting the Tigers, the name they have proudly born decade after decade.
Among the coaches selected at Princeton in 1877 was a young Junior whose name appears in the college press of that period as T. W. Wilson, who later was appointed head of the Board of Football Directors. Years afterward, when academic and literary honors began to multiply upon the shoulders...
Although the collegians in 1876 took over the Rugby style of play intact, the American genius for invention soon began to work amazing changes in the game which their English comrades had left substantially alone for 40 years. The British fashion of continually kicking the ball abated, and in its...
In 1880, among a series of less important changes, the intercollegiate convention limited the number of players to eleven. Here football came by the number which so evenly balances offense and defense, and which has grown to be a magical word in the nomenclature of the sport.
Where before it had been in doubt as to which side would emerge with the ball after a play, this convention also arranged that if the team in possesison elected not to kick and did not fumble it might retain the ball indefinitely. Princeton early showed the fallacy of this...