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APPENDIX
Firsts in American Men's Intercollegiate Sports (1852-1905)
Sport
Date
Competitors
Winner
Score
Crew
3 Aug. 1852
Harvard-Yale
( 2 miles)
Harvard
By 4
lengths
Baseball
1 July 1859
Amherst-Williams
Amherst
73-32
Cricket
7 May 1864
Haverford-Penn
Haverford
89-60
Football
(Soccer-like)
6 Nov. 1869
Rutgers-Princeton
Rutgers
6-4
Football
(Rugby—U.S.-
Canada)
15 May 1874
Harvard-McGill
Tie
0-0
Football
(Rugby—U.S.
only)
4 June 1875
Tufts-Harvard
Tufts
1-0
Track and
Field
20 July 1873
Amherst-Cornell-
McGill
(2-mile run)
McGill's
Duncan
Bowie
11 min.
18:5 sec.
Rifle
17 May 1877
Harvard-Yale
Harvard
By 20
points
Lacrosse
22 Nov. 1877
NYU-Manhattan
NYU
2-0
Bicycle
29 May 1880
Yale-Columbia
( Part of IC4A
track meet)
(2-mile race)
Yale's
W. P.
Wurtz
7 min.
57 sec.
by 20
yards
Tennis
7-8 June 1883
Amherst, Brown,
Harvard, Trinity,
Yale
Harvard's
J. S. Clark
( singles)
J. S. Clark
and P. E.
Presbrey
( doubles)

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Publication Information: Book Title: Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics. Contributors: Ronald A. Smith - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1990. Page Number: 219.
    
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