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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...year 1874 is a memorable, one, for in it occurred the event which led directly to the establishment of the present type of intercollegiate football. This event was an invasion of the United States by the Rugby football fifteen of McGill University of Montreal. The ambitious young Canadians played only one game at their style of play, but that was at Harvard. The complex, brilliant features of Rugby instantly captured the imagination, and Harvard abandoned its curious code and adopted that of the visitors...
...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...
Although the collegians in 1876 took over the Rugby style of play intact, the American genius for invention soon began to work amazing changes in the game which their English comrades had left substantially alone for 40 years. The British fashion of continually kicking the ball abated, and in its place rushing and passing became more predominant features...