Word: games
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
McGill Introduces Rugby Game...
...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 only one game at their style of play, but that was at Harvard. The complex, brilliant features of Rugby instantly captured the imagination, and Harvard abandoned its curious code and adopted that of the visitors...
...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 Association, and adopted with a few modifications the Rugby Union rules. They also arranged a mutual schedule of games...
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 place rushing and passing became more predominant features...