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...Rutgers were joined by Columbia, but in 1871 intercollegiate football temporarily lapsed. At Yale in the fall of 1872 were a number of young football players with a capacity for constructive leadership, and these men, with their associates, organized themselves into the Yale Football Association. Having drafted a code of playing, they challenged Columbia, and the latter accepted...
While these basic events in football history were being enacted at Yale, similar activity characterized undergraduate life at 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...
...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...
...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...
...necessity for reformation of the football rules has regularly arisen during the annals of the sport at intervals of approximately ten years. In 1906 the public forced a revision of the rules to eliminate the more unsavory elements. Out of this strife came an enlarged Rules Committee, an altered code, and an improved game. With the abolition of mass formation, the forward pass came into prominence, and a large number of minor improvements were added to the code...