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Show -t; --"A" "A" -.V "A" A" -,V V.- S K .V V V. V." A" ",V -.V ,V A- ,. "A" A" -.V "A" A" -.V -7.- .V "A" -.V A' 'A" ,V "A" "A" TV 'tr K "A" A" First Flying Wedge on Football Field, in 1869 As far as history goes, the first Intercollegiate In-tercollegiate football game of all time was played November 6, 1860, at Brunswick, N. J., between Rutgers of that city and Princeton, from 23 miles away. The New York World published the story of the game, as told by John W. Herbert Rutgers, '72 a participant partici-pant The teams numbered 23 players play-ers each. Rutgers, It appeared, was having a tough year. Princeton had won at baseball and had succeeded In obtaining obtain-ing the Revolutionary war cannon, which had been stolen back and forth, by burying It several inches deep in concrete. Football was becoming common com-mon as an intramural sport, and Rutgers Rut-gers challenged its rival to three games. The first was played at Brunswick. "Receiving the ball," Mr. Herbert writes, "our men formed a perfect Interference In-terference around it and with short, skillful kicks and dribbles drove It down the field. Taken by surprise, the Princeton men fought valiantly, but in five minutes we had gotten the ball through to our captain's of the enemy's goal, and S. G. Gano, "71 and G. R. Dixon, '73, neatly kicked It over. None thought of it so far as I know, but we had without previous plan or thought evolved the play that became famous a few years later as 'the flying fly-ing wedge." Rutgers won, 6 to 4. Princeton won the second game, 8 to 0, on Its home grounds. The faculty called off the third game because feeling was running run-ning so high between the student bodies. Detroit News. |