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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...
Football is the oldest of our organized games. The first we know of it is that it was played by the Spartans, and their style of play amazes us by its similarity to the game of today. Football, too, was a sport common to all village greens in in America following the Revolutionary War. The traditions of the older colleges of America are laden with stories of campus football...
...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 was on this early team that Walter Camp, football's great personality, played halfback for Yale...
...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...
...marked (A) stand at foot of stairs under Stadium; men marked (B) stand at first entrance to Stadium; men marked (C) stand at entrance to wooden stands on track; men marked (D) stand at second entrance to Stadium; men marked (E) stand at colonnade entrance...