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Found this on something called Paloaltowiki
http://www.paloaltowiki.org/index.php/St...s_football

"In 1906, Stanford University canceled its football program. President David Starr Jordan, reported in the fall after the great quake that the campus's major sport would no longer be football. Instead the game would be rugby.
The news startled a student body that had grown attached to its gridiron rivalries, especially given that the Indians were coming off an undefeated season in which they outscored their opponents 138-13.
But Jordan and other members of the faculty were concerned that the sport prevented medium-sized men from playing, too few men were involved in athletics and students were too preoccupied with winning a game that was too competitive.
"The closed formations favored by the present rules make possible unfair and brutal playing which cannot be detected," said Frank Angell, chairman of a faculty athletic committee, in a report on football. "The game...has become a business rather than a sport."
Students and alumni protested. But the protests fell on deaf ears."

[Rally]

Found this on something called Paloaltowiki
http://www.paloaltowiki.org/index.php/St...s_football

"In 1906, Stanford University canceled its football program. President David Starr Jordan, reported in the fall after the great quake that the campus's major sport would no longer be football. Instead the game would be rugby.
The news startled a student body that had grown attached to its gridiron rivalries, especially given that the Indians were coming off an undefeated season in which they outscored their opponents 138-13.
But Jordan and other members of the faculty were concerned that the sport prevented medium-sized men from playing, too few men were involved in athletics and students were too preoccupied with winning a game that was too competitive.
"The closed formations favored by the present rules make possible unfair and brutal playing which cannot be detected," said Frank Angell, chairman of a faculty athletic committee, in a report on football. "The game...has become a business rather than a sport."
Students and alumni protested. But the protests fell on deaf ears."