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DARTMOUTH, 30; TECH., 0.The Tech.- Dartmouth game at Hanover resulted in a victory for Dartmouth by a score of 30 to 0. In spite of the rain and mud the game was well played. Dartmouth won by superior rushing...
Lafayette defeated the University of Pennsylvania at Easton, Wednesday afternoon, by a score of 12 to 6. The game was finely contested throughout, and was won by Lafayette in the second half. Pennsylvania got a goal in the first half through hard work by Gray, but failed to score again. Lafayette got two touchdowns in the second half by phenomenal runs by Camp and Pilgrim, the half-backs...
...mile tricycle race was won by Davis, in 3 minutes, 45 seconds...
...were played. In 1873 the first Intercollegiate Convention was organized and a series of games played. The game then was very different from that played now. It was purely football, as no player could carry the ball or tackle an opponent and off-side playing was not forbidden. Yale won the championship in 1873 and again in 1874, but lost it to Harvard in the following year. In 1876 and 1877 Yale again defeated Harvard, Columbia and Princeton. In 1878 some changes were made in the rules, tending to make the game closer and the number of players on each...
...game was introduced and the players reduced to eleven on each side. Since that change, football has taken the foremost place in college sports and is now the most popular and scientific game played. Some years afterwards the "blocking" system of play was introduced by Princeton. The championship was won by Yale for several years, Princeton following closely. In 1884 the contest between Yale and Princeton was a draw and the championship was not awarded. Princeton won in 1885 by a remarkable run of Lamar's, which turned the score at the very end of the game...