he late 1880s catapulted many sound fundamentals that are still in our era’s version of the pigskin game. These were the building-block years that laid out the foundation of our great game. Our mission in this series is to leave "no stone unturned" and to look at football’s advancement in each year. We will continue this mission by picking up with the year 1886 and some important items of interest.
Convention of 5 May, 1886
Once again the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York hosted the convention. The highlight of this meeting was that Harvard was requesting re-instatement into the organization: Apparently, football was once again alive in the Boston school. The growing popularity of the game around the region pressured the faculty of Harvard to rethink their earlier abolishment of the game from school grounds.
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