ebate at the specially convened football rules meeting in November 1884 showed division over how to define the authority of the referee and the two judges. That would be the major task of the next meeting of the football minds at New York’s Fifth Avenue Hotel on 7 February 1885. At that convention, Harvard was forced to withdraw from the association as the sport was abolished by the institution because of a decision by the school’s faculty. The universities of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan, though, were more than willing to fill the void left by Harvard’s departure as they applied for membership in the association.