Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton and Rutgers were joined by Columbia, but in 1871 intercollegiate football temporarily lapsed. At Yale in the fall of 1872 were a number of young football players with a capacity for constructive leadership, and these men, with their associates, organized themselves into the Yale Football Association. Having drafted a code of playing, they challenged Columbia, and the latter accepted...
...Princeton the game was rapidly progressing, and in 1873 they assembled an intercollegiate conference between Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale. Harvard also was invited to attend this conference but declined. This original football committee drafted a common code of playing rules, still clinging to the principles of "Association" play...
When it was suggested to him that the advocate of the Harvard-Columbia-Yale air-races had maintained that the expenses would not be greater than the sums spent for football each year, Mr. Cabot replied: "Yes, but football gives satisfaction to thousands of people, and much of its cost is paid by gate receipts. Aviation brings satisfaction only to a few, and you can't sell tickets for an air-race...
Alabama 17, Alaska 1, Arizona 6, Arkansas 17, California 96, Colorado 41, Connecticut 114, Delaware 5. District of Columbia 36, Florida 13, Georgia 43, Hawaii 8, Idaho 6, Illinois 161, Indiana 66, Iowa 54, Kansas 19, Kentucky 24, Louisiana 18, Maine 109, Maryland 52, Massachusetts 2193, Michigan 41, Minnesota 67, Mississippi 11, Missouri 77, Montana 9, Nebraska 42, Nevada 2, New Hampshire 66, New Jersey 146. New York 576, New Mexico 2, North Carolina 24, North Dakota 9, Ohio 193, Oklahoma 24, Oregon 30, Pennsylvania 215, Philippine Islands S. Porto Rico 3, Rhode Island 97, South Carolina 22, South Dakota...
Negotiations are few under way for intercollegiate air races, but no definite results have yet been accomplished. It now seems probable that the University, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and several other institutions will be affiliated in an air league which will hold a regular series of races throughout the year...