FOOTBALL HISTORY COMPILED

As an after-math of the football season last fall, the following statistics concerning the sport have been complied, giving a history of the game in our larger universities:

Football first appeared at Rutgers and Princeton in 1869, and these two colleges are the pioneers in the football world Michigan was the first western college to adopt the game, taking up football in 1878. Yale started football in 1872, and since then has played 385 games, of which she has won 341, been tied in 19 and in a period of 42 years has lost only 25. Twelve years Yale has won the undisputed championship, and on 12 other occasions has gone through the season undefeated, but with the championship disputed.

This record cannot be equalled by that of either Harvard or Princeton. The University began football in 1874. Since then they have played 361 games, winning 302, tying 18, and losing 48, while Princeton in the 46 years that they have played, have won 306, tied 14, and lost 39 of the 359 games played.

The following table shows the achievements of the larger colleges throughout the country since football was adopted by them:   Games Played.  Won.  Lost.  Tied.  Year Started. Amherst,  280  117  139  24  1878 Army,  174  105  53  16  1890 Brown,  251  137  104  10  1878 Carlisle,  229  162  60  7  1894 Chicago,  214  144  56  14  1892 Cornell,  263  166  82  15  1887 Dartmouth,  227  168  73  16  1882 Harvard,  361  302  48  11  1874 Illinois,  208  138  58  12  1888 Indiana,  148  73  63  12  1886 Iowa,  217  142  64  11  1890 Kansas,  197  130  58  9  1890 Lafayette,  301  174  112  15  1882 Lehigh,  265  123  125  17  1884 Michigan,  156  102  46  8  1878 Minnesota,  192  153  34  5  1890 Missouri,  152  84  59  9  1890 Navy,  220  147  55  18  1882 Nebraska,  100  122  31  7  1892 No. Dakota,  103  61  36  6  1894 Notre Dame,  140  101  29  10  1887 Pennsylvania,  404  295  96  13  1876 Penn. State,  196  136  63  10  1888 Pittsburgh,  183  121  54  8  1894 Purdue,  150  75  13  12  1893 Princeton,  359  306  39  14  1869 Rutgers;  275  99  157  19  1869 Tufts,  201  88  107  6  1875 Texas,  157  116  7  34  1892 Vanderbilt,  182  134  36  12  1890 Wash. and Jeff.,  181  142  38  11  1890 Wash. State,  95  60  28  7  1890 Wisconsin,  170  125  35  10  1896 Yale,  385  341  25  19  1872