1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game

Football game August 2023 1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game First "Boston rules" football game played in the United States 1873 McGill Redmen McGill Redmen football Harvard Crimson Harvard Crimson football 0 3 May 14, 1874 Jarvis Field Cambridge 1874 Harvard vs. McGill rugby game First rugby football game played in the United States HarvardMcGill.jpg The second game, played under the rugby rules. Harvard players at left, in white shirts 1873 McGill Redmen McGill Redmen football Harvard Crimson Harvard Crimson football 0 0 0 0 0 0 May 15, 1874 Jarvis Field Cambridge The 1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game was a two-game series between the Harvard Crimson and the McGill Redmen held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 14 and 15, 1874.THIS DATE IN HISTORY: First football game was May 14, 1874 https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/date-history-first-football-game-was-may-14-1874-106694 18 December 2021 McGill University News mcgill.ca 14 May 2012 With the first game being played under the Harvard's "Boston game", the second one was the first rugby-style football game played in the United States. It used three periods or "games" and ended in a scoreless tie.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2090813/boston_post/ Boston Post May 16, 1874 3 Foot Ball March 29, 2015 Newspapers.com http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ivyleague/harvard/yearly_results.php?year=1873 College Football Data Warehouse August 22, 2014 David DeLassus Harvard Yearly Results https://web.archive.org/web/20140728212630/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ivyleague/harvard/yearly_results.php?year=1873 2014-07-28 dead A Princeton vs. Rutgers football game had been played five years earlier (in 1869), but under a variation of England's The Football Association rules, closer to contemporary soccer than American football. The Boston game rules were developed by the first organized football team, the Oneida Football Club, founded in 1862. Many of its members went on to found, and play for, the Harvard team. Overview On October 20, 1873, representatives from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Rutgers met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City to codify the first set of intercollegiate football rules. Before this meeting, each school had its own set of rules and games were usually played using the home team's own particular code. At this meeting, a list of rules, based more on association football than on rugby football, was drawn up for intercollegiate football games. Harvard, which played the Boston game, a version of football that allowed carrying, refused to attend this rules conference and continued to play under its own code. While Harvard's voluntary absence from the meeting made it hard for them to schedule games against other American universities, it agreed to a challenge to play McGill University, from Montreal, Canada, in a two-game series. The McGill team traveled to Cambridge to meet Harvard. On May 14, 1874, the first game, played under Boston rules, was dominated by Harvard, which lead 3–0 after only 22 minutes when the game was ended.https://archive.org/stream/football002320mbp#page/n77/mode/2up Football, the American intercollegiate game 64 Parke H. Davis Parke H. Davis The next day, the two teams played under "McGill" rugby rules to a scoreless tie. No Christian End! The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889 Professional Football Researchers Association http://www.profootballresearchers.com/articles/No_Christian_End.pdf 2010-01-26 The first game featured a round ball instead of a rugby-style oblong ball. McGill used a bladder covered by leather instead of a rubber ball as did Harvard, which was much more difficult to kick.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/892366/harvard_1874_spring_mcgill_announcement/ Boston Post May 11, 1874 4 Out-Door Sports March 29, 2015 Newspapers.com thumb|left|After the two games in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard travelled to Montreal to play a third game (picture) The game drew about 500 attendees, most of whom were students. This series of games represents an important milestone in the development of the modern games of Canadian and American football.https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/date-history-first-football-game-was-may-14-1874-106694 THIS DATE IN HISTORY: First football game was May 14, 1874 mcgill.ca 2012-05-14 2015-11-19Parke H. Davis '93 On Harvard Football 583 Princeton Alumni Weekly 16 March 29, 1916 https://books.google.com/books?id=ThJbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA583 Google books A similar game was played a year later between Harvard and Tufts establishing this as the first game between two American colleges played under rules used in today's version of American football. At this time, the try was not used in American football. The try would later evolve into the score known as the touchdown. In late 1874, the Harvard team traveled to Montreal to play McGill in rugby, and won by three tries in front of 2,000 spectators.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=X4IuAAAAIBAJ&dq=harvard%20mcgill%20football&pg=943%2C6513069 The Montreal Gazette November 27, 1970 August 22, 2014 D.A.L. MacDonald Montreal's Cup Float recalls how McGill started grid maniaNovember 13, 1915 Early Football https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MnMzAAAAIBAJ&dq=harvard%20mcgill%20football%201874&pg=1106%2C5266575 August 22, 2014 San Jose Evening News Google Newshttps://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fEowAAAAIBAJ&dq=harvard%20mcgill%20football%201874&pg=5365%2C2850517 The Montreal Gazette December 22, 1933 August 22, 2014 D.A.L. MacDonald McGill and Harvard Have Been Rivals for 59 Years See also 1873 college football season 1874 college football season References 30em Category:1874 college football season vs. McGill 1874 vs. Harvard 1874 Category:History of Cambridge, Massachusetts Category:American football competitions in Massachusetts Category:Sports in Cambridge, Massachusetts Category:1874 in American sports Category:May 1874 in the United States Category:1874 in sports in Massachusetts Category:History of McGill University