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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...
...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...
...first football game between Harvard and Yale was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on November 13, 1875, and was won by Harvard by four goals to none. About 150 Harvard students journeyed from Cambridge to witness the contest, and were commented on as "the biggest crowd from Boston ever seen in New Haven." Mr. Parke H. Davis in his book on football gives account of the game, from which a few excerpts are printed here...
...Haven Parker '22 of South Lancaster has been appointed second assistant manager of the University Association Football team and Robert Doolittle '23 of New York City manager of the Freshman team. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Student Council and the Athletic Committee...
...results of the first regular season of soccer since 1916 have been very satisfactory in view of the great difficulties under which we have been working," said Coach Burgess recently in a review of the present soccer year. "We haven't had many men to work with who have had experience in a college game before, as the only player on the team who I have coached before at the University is Kellett; and he has put up a splendid game at right inside forward. Another disadvantage that counted against us was the short time for practice before the games...