hen we last visited this series, we found that a new game called rugby was shipped across the sea from England to America. Rugby was a brutal game, and many schools in England decided not to play it, instead opting for a sport called association football or soccer.
Meanwhile, in the good ol' U.S.A.
Rugby became popular early in America, but by 1860, the game was abolished in many American schools. It was revived in 1862 by Gerritt Smith Hiller, who organized a group at Yale to play again, using rules that were a reasonably close imitation of soccer. Still, the game was often more an excuse to beat up freshmen than anything else.
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