Editing College football (section)

====Harvard–Tufts, Harvard–Yale (1875)====
Harvard quickly took a liking to the rugby game, and its use of the [[Try (rugby)|try]] which, until that time, was not used in American football. The try would later evolve into the score known as the [[touchdown]]. On June 4, 1875, Harvard faced [[Tufts University]] in the first game between two American colleges played under rules similar to the McGill/Harvard contest, which was won by Tufts 1–0.<ref>Gardner (1996){{full citation needed|date=June 2021}}</ref> The rules included each side fielding 11 men at any given time, the ball was advanced by kicking or carrying it, and tackles of the ball carrier stopped play – actions of which have carried over to the modern version of football played today.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gridiron gridlock: Citing research, Tufts claims football history is on its side |first=Kevin Paul |last=Dupont |date=September 23, 2004 |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2004/09/23/gridiron_gridlock/?page=full}}</ref>

Harvard later challenged its closest rival, Yale, to which the Bulldogs accepted. The two teams agreed to play under a set of rules called the "Concessionary Rules", which involved Harvard conceding something to Yale's soccer and Yale conceding a great deal to Harvard's rugby. They decided to play with 15 players on each team. On November 13, 1875, Yale and Harvard played each other for the first time ever, where Harvard won 4–0. At the first [[Harvard–Yale football rivalry|The Game]] (as the annual contest between Harvard and Yale came to be named) the future "father of American football" [[Walter Camp]] was among the 2000 spectators in attendance. Walter, a native of [[New Britain, Connecticut]], would enroll at Yale the next year. He was torn between an admiration for Harvard's style of play and the misery of the Yale defeat, and became determined to avenge Yale's defeat. Spectators from Princeton also carried the game back home, where it quickly became the most popular version of football.<ref name=PFRA1/>

On November 23, 1876, representatives from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia met at the [[Massasoit House]] hotel in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]] to standardize a new code of rules based on the rugby game first introduced to Harvard by McGill University in 1874. Three of the schools—Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton—formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, as a result of the meeting. Yale initially refused to join this association because of a disagreement over the number of players to be allowed per team (relenting in 1879) and Rutgers were not invited to the meeting. The rules that they agreed upon were essentially those of rugby union at the time with the exception that points be awarded for scoring a [[Try (rugby)|try]], not just the [[Try (rugby)|conversion]] afterwards ([[Conversion (gridiron football)|extra point]]). Incidentally, rugby was to make a similar change to its scoring system 10 years later.<ref name=PFRA2>{{cite book |chapter=Camp and His Followers: American Football 1876–1889 |title=The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889 |publisher=Professional Football Researchers Association |chapter-url=http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Camp_And_Followers.pdf |access-date=January 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100929152206/http://profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Camp_And_Followers.pdf |archive-date=September 29, 2010}}</ref>