Show f First Football Game Played 44 Years Ago or Of the thousands of oC persons who vrho see the annual football games game between the large arge college elevens in in different sections of the countr country only a few know w when and where tho the groat eat college sport was organized It is safe to state that tew few persons who have havo graduated from tho various institutions can name namo the year ear in in which the game ame was first played in their respective universities or colleges The Tho game of or college collego football was vms first organized organ ud in this country in 1869 and since ince since that time has undergone on many ninny changes until today it stands out as th the foremost branch of athletic endeavor in the American colleges Rutgers and aud Princeton were the first institutions to tako up the thc tame game and it is to note the be number of games gaines which been played b by tho leading and colleges since the game was organized org in various s institutions iu in- of learning The statistics have bave been compiled by bv Park TI n. Davis tho the representative e of or Princeton university on the rules committee Yale Eleven Next iu In Line Following the advent of ot football in Rutgers and Princeton in lS 9 Yale I Iras was ras the next university to fall faU in line Old Eli organized its first eleven in ill Two years ears cars later Harvard took up 1 the toe sport snort and its example was followed follo the tho next year b by In 1876 Pennsylvania students took to tho the game came and two jears years l later ter Amherst and Brown joined tho ranks was seen in the west for r the thc first time in iu 1878 when a team was wa organized or or- in Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa rowa and aud Missouri took to the I game in 1890 and Chicago had hod its first football eleven en in ill 1892 when J tho university uni I I founded I was to 0 I A peculiar fact about the compilation of statistics is that Pennsylvania has lias I played tho the greatest number of games Rames although h football was not org organized there until seven years later lator than at Rutgers and Princeton P Penn nn teams have havo played games of r which have havo resulted in in victories 98 08 in defeats and 12 2 in tics ties The sons of old Eli have havo participated in battles Three hundred anti and twenty nine contests have havo been won won 21 l 1 lost Jost and 16 havo have resulted in tics ties Harvard liar Hal yard vard and nd Princeton each has played in in 34 gridiron struggles Crimson elevens clevens ha have been victorious in battles 47 17 II have P been lost and 9 have resulted ic Iii draws drawl The Tigers Tiger have ha won games a lost 33 35 and been held to ties in 12 2 Since Sinco the organization or of tho the game came me at Michigan MichI an in 1878 the Wolverine in institution institution in- in has been represented in contests Ann Arbor teams teanis arc are with victories 4 defeats and 8 tics a record which compares favorably l. with eastern stern un universities Notre Kotre Dame the second western college to take up football has played 31 contests The Catholics have hae won 94 94 lost 29 20 and tied 10 Illinois t tho tle third to take to the sport has played games Orange and blue elevens have havo won 13 1 contests lost 56 an and J 11 31 1 have c rel resulted in in n ties tics 0 0 Wisconsin warriors have cn engaged R ed in iu combats One hundred and twenty twenty- two have ban re resulted in in in- victories 32 in defeats and 9 in ties Although h Chicago o fell in hue liuo in 1892 two years later than eom some of its I bitterest t rivals rh maroon teams have played contests t aggregations ag Lava han won ivea 1 battier tUO Jo JOlt tt 50 GO and have have- been held to ti ties tics 5 in I 11 I. I |