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In the first year, 1876, Yale emerged the champion. It is interesting to note that in these games Yale's fullback, O. D. Thompson, defeated both Harvard and Princeton by a goal from the field, executed while running at full speed, a feat unseen in the 40 years since. It...
These rules were short-lived, but they served the purpose of making possible the original Princeton-Yale game, the oldest of all present-day football classics. This game was played at New Haven November 15, 1873, and Princeton won.
The year 1874 is a memorable, one, for in it occurred the event which led directly to the establishment of the present type of intercollegiate football. This event was an invasion of the United States by the Rugby football fifteen of McGill University of Montreal. The ambitious young Canadians played...
The second step, a challenge to Yale, followed in 1875, and Yale accepted. The game was played at New Haven with Harvard the victor. The result of this game was the assembling of a second convention, attended by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, in 1876, which formed the Intercollegiate Football...
The association thus formed was destined to endure amid stress and storm for two decades. The rules there adopted, although annually amended and extended, are nevertheless basically the rules that regulate play today, and the three great series of football contests thus founded--Harvard-Princeton, Princeton-Yale, and Harvard-Yale...