The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-11
Columbia University
 Was Pioneer in the
 Game of Football.

Columbia University's return to the football fold has been too recent to enable the great New York institution to make any brilliant reputation on the gridiron, but. with the wealth of human material at it's disposal, the time should come when Columbia will again ran high in the game. It is not generally known that Columbia was a pioneer in intercollegiate foot ball, but in this respect it doffs its lid . only to Princeton and Rutgers.
 It will be forty-six years tomorrow since Columbia first appeared on the gridiron in an intercollegiate contest. The Columbia student body now ever 16,000, numbered at that time only about 125, and the campus of the old college was so small that the players restricted in practice. Studyvesant Fish, of the class of Fl, was the prime mover in introrucing football prime mover m introducing football of the team. which consisted of twen- ty men, or about one-sixth of the to- tai number of students After the men had practiced some time Captain Fish received challenge from Rrt- gers College, and on Nov. 12, 1870, he led his team against the New Jersey collegians at New Brunswick. About year before the first intercollegiate football game in history had been played in that city between Rutgers and Princeton, each having twenty twenty-five men. Rutgers had de- feated Princeton and the Rutgers men also took Columbia into camp to thA tune of to O. The game was rough and fiercely contested and few of the men on either side escap- without choice collection of bruises and sore shins.
 Yale appeared as an intercollegiate football competitor in 1872, and the same year Harvard took up football, combining the Association and Rug- by styles of play. In 1873 Yale, Princeton and Rutgers got together and agreed on a set of rules to gov- ern the game at all three colleges, the rules being based on the Associa- tion game. The first Yale-Princeton clash in '73 was governed by this code. The first international contest was played at Cambridge in "A be- tween Harvard and McGill University of Montreal, under English Rugby rules. Columbia continued to be prominent in the game. and took part in the famous conference of '76 when the rules which formed the founda- tion of the present intercollegiate code were adopted.
 Walter Maranville, the famous shortstop of the Braves, is twenty four years old today. The Rabbit was born in Springfield Mass, on Nov. II, 1892. His father and moths CT were Irish, and he is Irish, too. Pop Maranville was a policeman in the western Massachusetts metrSpo- lis, and Walter was educated in the local schools, taking the pitching course at first, but later adding short stopping to his accomplishments. Af- ter leaving school Rabbit tried his hand at brick laying and also at ci- gar making, but neither trade appeal ed to him, and in 1911 he landed job with New Bedford as shortstop on the New England League club in the Portuguese city. The elder Ma ranville was disgusted. Walter has gone to the dogs" he told his friends. "I, gave him a good education and tried to have him learn bricklaying and then cigarmaking, but now he has skipped to New Bedford to play with them worthless ball players" There was brief in the Maranville family un- til Walter was given job with the Boston Braves in 1912, and in 1914, when Walter was a hero and the rel cipient of large share of the worlds series swag, the former woe turned to delight.