| Stevens football | |
|---|---|
| First season | 1872 |
| Last season | 1924; 102 years ago (1924) |
| Location | Hoboken, New Jersey |
| Conference | Independent |
| Claimed national championships | |
| 0 | |
| Conference championships | |
| 0 | |
| Conference division championships | |
| 0 | |
| Colors | Red and Gray |
TheStevens football team represented theStevens Institute of Technology incollege football.
Stevens was one of the first five college football teams.[1]
In 1873, representatives ofPrinceton,Yale,Columbia, andRutgers met in New York City to establish the first American intercollegiate rules for football on the model of theLondon Football Association.[2]
As the game developed in the United States it became progressively more violent and Stevens became disadvantaged. The alumni magazine commented that the style of the game became too difficult and required an enormous amount of time and training which could be afforded by larger colleges, but would add too much work to the already difficult academic coursework at Stevens.[3] PresidentAlexander Crombie Humphreys ended the football program after the 1924 season.
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