JEarly College Ball: The first collegiate tournament is played in Chicago. Eastman is rumored to have made 100 times as much from betting on the game, which some still claim was fixed. The players are paid between $50-$100 each. Rules of conduct are worked out between team captains before games because attempts to have referees do more than tally the final score are vehemently resisted.ĪpFirst Professional Game: Railroad magnate Hollis Eastman, a former quarterback for Evanswood University in Cambridge Massachusetts, sponsors the first "professional" football game between the Belmont Bearcats and the Lexington Pioneers. Black days, but the scandal passes and the game is better for the changes.ĪugEarly Days of Football: Some universities, prompted by generous and influential alumni, begin staging football matches again. Betting on these matches becomes a profitable underground business. Averse to regulation and unwilling to halt the "Gentlemanly Sport of Football" many college teams arrange matches covertly. Universities across the country attempt to ban or regulate football after a player from Eastern Methodist Tech is killed during a rough and tumble game. Ivy league universities adapt Canadian rugby rules and create the game of American Football.
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