Word: contests
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...game which takes place in the Stadium represents an interesting contrast to the game which Harvard played 45 years ago against McGill University. This game, played on Jarvis Field in May, 1874, was the first intercollegiate contest under Rugby rules. It resulted in a scoreless tie. Although these two teams had met the day before, the game on the 15th was the first of interest, owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that day, that "under...
...some time previous to the contest the team was drilled by night on Jarvis Field. Although this game represented the crudest kind of football compared with the game as we know it today, yet it aroused great enthusiasm over the new Rugby rules in the various colleges, and it was as a result of this feeling that the Harvard-Yale series began in 1875. A contemporary Harvard publication in speaking of the game says...
...captain of this pioneer team was Henry R. Grant '74, who played one of the halfback positions. Little attention was paid this contest by the public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant 10 lines. In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which will reach its highest point before the throng of spectators in the Stadium today...
...squad doctors have given out the opinion, however, that both R. Horween and J. K. Desmond Occ, will be physically fit to enter the contest on Saturday. Desmond, a 204-pounder, and probably one of the heaviest men who has ever played end, has suffered from an injured knee sustained in the Tiger game, and until yesterday had not rejoined the squad in the Stadium...