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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...press of Princeton and Rutgers, founders of football, accorded the event only an incidental line or two, and then passed on to more customary news. The players, however, elated by the fun in their venture, arranged another game two weeks later, and in the following year another series, and so unconsciously became the fathers of that mighty institution of American sport, intercollegiate football...
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...
...sport here, however, was without organization, without elaborate rules, and without formal competition, until William S. Gummere of Princeton and William J. Leggett of Rutgers arranged the Princeton-Rutgers game of 1869, and drafted a special set of rules to govern its play. Those rules, either unconsciously or by design, followed the "association" style of play, for soccer, even in these early days, was an established institution...
...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...