Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 6 | Research Workers Find Football Oldest Sport |

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Date	1926-11-28
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
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County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Research Workers Find Football Oldest Sport
Type	article
Date	1926-11-28
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	6
OCR Text	Research Workers Find I F Football Oldest Sport nE Cal Nov 27 7 21 Football Is the oldest of outdoor sports says nays as a's Lawrence White of Claremont Ca Cal Pomona college student who has conducted an ex exhaustive ex- ex e research Into the origin i of bt r th th pas Im r Digging Into t th Bible for football football foott foot- foot t ball lore White points out that I Ir r Isaiah wrote 1 lie He will toss thee like a ball Indicating somo form orm of ot the game existed us UI url irl e as o B. B C. C LeapIng Leap- Leap 1 In Ing rig ahead a few centuries the stu stu- stuie Bent ie ent t finds one one- of or the first official acts of or Caesar Augustus Augustus' Vas was to tie de- Mand a revision of the rules of or a i it t football game game which the had ad ad learnd d from the Greeks Au- Au C contended the game was too effeminate for tor men accustomed to toJ toV V J Slaughter aughter their foes toes with the short 8 word sword By 16 1630 0 football was regarded as r. r t R II national iniS institution In England It Iti i was played In American colle colleges es as J a early arly as 1800 The first intercollegiate intercol Intercol- t y l glate game Jame was played In 1861 be between be- be e tween Princeton and
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