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1879 Swarthmore Garnet Tide football team
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The 1879 Swarthmore Garnet Tide football team represented Swarthmore College during the 1879 college football season. Swarthmore was the 15th school to play football, and the second to play football in Pennsylvania (after Penn). The season saw the first contest with rival Haverford, to be one of the longest running rivalries. Both schools no longer have football programs. The score of the contest is recorded as Haverford 1 goal 1 td 1 safety, and Swarthmore 13 safeties. "The day, as regards temperature and brightness, was all that could be desired, though the frost of the previous night made the footing somewhat uncertain." "After the game of 1879, possibly because of Swarthmore's defeat that year, there was a lapse until 1883." Earlier in the season, the team played a game against Pennsyvlania Military Academy (later renamed Widener University), but the game's score is unknown. |
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