第一次GA/PC日会议

Although the forthcoming GA/PC Day looms in near epic proportion, the first meeting of these two schools to play football must have been a legend unto itself. To the modern eye, the football of the 1880s would look more like modern-day game of rugby. Here is a first-hand description by GA graduate Louis dePui Vail (GA Class of 1886):
 

 

 

There was much more kicking of the football and less running it … the football was round, not oval … almost everybody playing the game was a very fair kicker … There were no “head helmets” worn … no “nose guards” no padding at [the] elbow and knee and collar and a “shin guard” was such a rarity as to excite a great deal of 赢得了der and comment.

Prior to the forming of the Inter-Academic Athletic Association in 1887, GA一直在派出强大的球队. 这里，路易斯·韦尔再次说道:

vwin德赢娱乐 完全超越了 费城 schools … until about '87 … probably [because] boys had … more open lots on which to play … In 1886 日耳曼敦 学院 以6比0击败了宾大新生.

 

GA的足球传统始于Dr. 威廉·克肖担任校长. 11个学生和一个老师(乔治H. Deacon, the founder of the Inter-Ac) made up the first team in 1880. Looking at the 1881 team as it posed on the front steps of the school, we see group of seasoned athletes whose undefeated season was well earned. The fellow with the beard is obviously George Deacon.

The first meeting of the GA-PC was simply a part of the first Inter-Ac season. 这场比赛是在下午进行的 日耳曼敦 主队以20比6获胜. And, in point of fact GA had an undefeated season. No one at that time could have envisioned the classical tradition that would evolve into century-long tradition. 那支队伍里有亚伯兰·S. Valentine who has been credited with inventing one of the first baseball catcher’s mitts. 与此相切的是，vwin德赢娱乐委员会的成员 日耳曼敦 学院宾州特许大学，圣公会学院. 橄榄球 学院,Haverford 学校, 切尔滕纳姆 军事 学院, 德兰西 学校, 斯特兰德 学院, 朋友 中央 学校.

Even in those first days of Interac football, a lot of spectator spirit filled the sidelines. For the second GA-PC meeting, the “Charter” crowd anticipated landslide victory. Louis dePui Vail的更多评论:

 

 

 

[Some] of the enthusiastic Penn Charter “rooters” talked about a score of 64-0. Preparations to celebrate the victory were made before the game began. 日耳曼敦 赢得了, 然而, 37-8, so Penn Charter had very little use for the horns with which they had so plentifully provided themselves.
 

这个悠久的传统就这样开始了. 但是，这个传统并没有开始 根据事实本身.

 

 

Educational reform became a hallmark of American culture after the Civil War. A portion of that reform focused on physical education that initially was spearheaded by the YMCA movement. Both Headmaster Kershaw and his colleague, George H. Deacon were forward looking educators who quickly saw the virtue in the ideas espoused by the YMCA. What better place to implement such a progressive philosophy than in the realm of an extra-mural after-school sports program? The chief element certainly was present youthful energy and ebullience. And what better way to seek a healthy mind and body than through extra-curricular sport. 所以我们看到Inter-Ac游戏, including the first meeting of GA-PC on the gridiron, most likely started as the by-product of a broader, 前瞻性的教育理念.

By Edwin Nightingale Probert II 1760, "Probert's Pearls," Alum Online, November 2005

来源: vwin德赢娱乐的体育史 ; Published in Connection with the Sesqui-Centennial Anniversary of the Founding of the 学校, 12月6日, 1759; Robeson Lea Perot, [GA] 1888; Walter H. Jenkins, Printer; 费城; 1910.