The Haverford Fords football team represented

Haverford College Haverford College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), began accepting non-Quakers in 1849, and became coeducational ...

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. The team started in 1879, just the third school in Pennsylvania to field a football team. The team was

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with Swarthmore. The 1894 game claims to have the first "action shot" photograph of a game. College athletic director James Babbitt was an important figure in the 1905 rules negotiations that brought the forward pass, 10-yard first down and other innovations into the game. Haverford no longer has a team. The school ended the football program in 1972.

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