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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...Harvard. Stimulated by the leadership of Robert R. Grant '73, the football leaders in 1872 established the Harvard Football Club. The code of rules drawn up by these pioneers at Cambridge combined both the Association and Rugby codes, thus preventing the University's advent as an intercollegiate competitor for two more years, limiting their games in the interim to class and club contests...
...association thus formed was destined to endure amid stress and storm for two decades. The rules there adopted, although annually amended and extended, are nevertheless basically the rules that regulate play today, and the three great series of football contests thus founded--Harvard-Princeton, Princeton-Yale, and Harvard-Yale--today are the classic centres around which a hundred others thrive...
...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...
...following list contains the names of the captains of the Harvard and Yale football teams since the introduction of the sport in the two colleges...