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one/struggle - and we want it to be a victorious one.

It is thought that the Greeks played a game somewhat similar to
our football and probably the forerunner of our eds ck cae as far back as
twenty-five a years ago. Mr. Parke H. Davis, of Easton, Pa., who has
devoted much time and study to the he tats of sport, particularly football, is
authority for the following statement: —Quttee: he Greeks) played it
in a game amazingly like our own. Their field was rectangular in shape and
bounded by side lines and a goal line. They also had a center line. The
forward pass in their game as in ours was the principal feature in the attack&

Because of the prominence of the forward pass, the game was called Harpaston,

' meaning the forward — game, from the Greek word Harpazein, meaning to hegre?

Aowena- Fx

forward, hence, also, comes the a. word Harpo Qa Mgiamilh Pras
cians Welle? LL | FP ir alenye LLgy ga

Loatrceae face i was pecs a direct descendant of the
eet: game. it is see chine that the soldiers of Julius Caesar menyned the game
from the Greeks and carried it to ‘the British Isles at the time of their
expecitions. In the American game, near the middle of the nineteenth century,

a modification of the Rugby game was introduced at Yale by an undergraduate

who had previously been a student at Rugby. At about the same time other seaboard

colleges in America were learning of the game and gradually it began to appear
as an intercless and interhall contest. The first intercollegiate game to be
recorded in this country was played Nov. 6, 1869, between teams representing
Princeton and Rutgers. In 1872 representatives of Princeton, Yale, Rutgers
end Columbia met in New York City and adopted a set of rules which formed the
first intercollegiate football association in America,

Professor EB, M. Hopkins came to the University of Kansas from
Princeton and was the first football coach at K.U. in 1891.

This short historical sketch brings us to the coming football |

struggle in Haskell stadium on Saturday night at Can: before going further

I should mention that there are two very zealous young men = Gordon Stucker of