The 1875 Yale Bulldogs football team represented

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in the

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. The Bulldogs finished with a 2–2 record. The team won games against Rutgers and Wesleyan and lost to Harvard and Columbia. In this season, the first Yale vs Harvard contest was held, two years after the inaugural Yale vs Princeton football contest. Harvard athlete Nathaniel Curtis challenged Yale's captain, William Arnold, to a

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-style game. The next season Curtis was captain. He took one look at

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, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain

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"You don't mean to let that child play, do you? . . . He will get hurt." The two teams agreed to play under a set of rules called the "Concessionary Rules", which involved Harvard conceding something to Yale's

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and Yale conceding a great deal to Harvard's rugby. The game featured a round ball instead of a rugby-style oblong ball, and caused Yale to drop association football in favor of rugby.''THE BOSTON GAME''
article by Michael T. Geary at academia.edu

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