Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30

f1ict from the balconies of the New Ha-
ven House and the steps of the old state
house reversed the verdict by presenting
their flowers to the freshmen.
These PUSHES at last went the way OF
all good things. They waXed too rough
and in 1860 were abolished both by reso-
luton Of the facl'ty and by ordinance OF
the city of New Haven. And now foot
ball at Yale slept for twelve years. AT
length in 1872 a young Rugbeian who had
entered Yale in the class of 1873. David
Schley Schaff, aroused the slumberinS
foot ball spirit and arranged game be-
tween 70 and 1S upon the green. The
authorities of the city, however, had not
forgotten their ordinance and descended
upon the game. almost provoking a riot.
The faculty championed the right of the
students to use the green. Out OF the
warmth of the alteration was born Oc-
tober 81. 1872. the Yale Foot Bail Asso-
citation, with Schaff as president and cap
tain. Municipal war was averted by the
association leasing lot on Elm street.
Here beginneth modern foot ball at Yale.
the university's first game being waged
and won with Columbia under modifi-
cation of association rules, at Hamil-
ton Park, November 16. 1872.
AntiQuares at Harvard claim that a foot
ball was kicked pTomiscuOusly about the
yard in simple game as early 1900.
A few years later some genius devised
contest between the freshmen and
sophomores Today it Won d be called a
rush instead of a game. but Since 1t pos
sessed few crude rules of order and
was played with a foot ball II must De
accredited as the Inca! progenito: of the
fully perfected organism that to~ay Is
presented upon Soldiers Field.
The older foot ball generation OF the
present time well remembers the glcr1es
of Jarvis and Holmes fields. but the re
are few whose recollection can run baC
to an arena known as the Delta, now
the site of Memorial Hall. Here seventy
years ago were held Harvard's first foot
ball games, the freshmen sophomore con-
tests aforesaid. Upon the evening of the
match, half-past six being the established
hour. the upper classmen assembled and
took seats upon a nearby fence.
The two lower Classes to the last man
present were marshaled in two opposing
lines, the sturdiest representatives of the
freshmen being in the center of this line
with the ball. At the signal both lines
advanced on the run to the center of the
delta, where the freshmen endeavOred to
force their champion with the ball through
the sophomoreS ranks and onward to the
line which the sophOmores defended. a copi-
Gus amount of fisticuffs in this encounter
not only was natural but also was per-
missible These ebullient young foot ball
men, however, eventually became so bois-
ferrous and, as confidentially limited. at
times so pugnaciouS, that this sport came
under the faculty displeasure. Periodic
were the official prohibitions launched al
it, but periodic was its temperance.
About 1915 some improvements were made
in the game, and regular class contests
organized. which continued for fifteen
years. The pugnacious traditions of the
past. however, still were present to keep
alive it's virile practices. In 1860, belicose
year that it was, these class encounters
were waged with unusual vim, prodigious
noise and petty violence. for in the ranks