Kentucky University 13¾ to 0 Centre College
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| Date | April 9, 1880 | ||||||
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| Venue | Stoll Field, Lexington, Kentucky | ||||||
On April 9, 1880, Transylvania University (then known as Kentucky University) and Centre College played against each other at Stoll Field in Lexington, Kentucky. Though it's incorrectly claimed to be the first intercollegiate game to be played in the south, as Washington & Lee and VMI played earlier games in 1871 and 1873, it was the first game in the state of Kentucky. [1][2] Said to have resembled a combination of soccer and rugby, the game was played by fifteen players on each team, wearing heavy shoes and heavily padded apparel. The entrance fee was 50 cents.[3]
The game's fractional score was because Kentucky University and Centre College were playing with rules allowing for quarter points to be scored. In this old version of the rules, field goals counted as one point, and touchdowns counted as ¼ of a point.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ "A History of Washington and Lee Athletics". Retrieved February 10, 2015.
- ↑ Ratcliffe, Jerry (2008). University of Virginia Football Vault. Atlanta, Ga.: Whitman Publishing, LLC. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-7948-2647-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Wright, John D. (2006). Transylvania, tutor to the West. Internet Archive. Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky. p. 302. ISBN 978-0-8131-4920-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Nelson, David M. (1994). The anatomy of a game : football, the rules, and the men who made the game. Internet Archive. Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-87413-455-1. Search this book on
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