05-03-2008, 08:17 PM
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The G stands for Garnet... Garnet and Gray.
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New York Times: Ohio Celebrates a Game of Foot Ball
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Ohio Celebrates a Game of Foot Ball
The Ohio Wesleyan team, above, that played Ohio State.
By MICHAEL DAVID SMITH
May 4, 2008
On May 3, 1890, a group of Ohio State students rose early, boarded their horse-drawn wagons and made the 20-mile trip along the Olentangy River from Columbus to Delaware, the home of Ohio Wesleyan University, to play what that day's Delaware Gazette described as "the first game of Rugby foot ball."
Ohio State and Ohio Wesleyan now occupy opposite ends of the college football spectrum. The Buckeyes, whose Columbus campus has an enrollment in excess of 52,000, play in a stadium that seats more than 100,000 and field a team of players with N.F.L. aspirations. The Battling Bishops, who draw from a student body of 1,850, play in a stadium less than a tenth the size and offer no football scholarships. But the universities? football programs began together on that spring morning 118 years ago.
The site of that first game was a mystery until last year, when Dick Gordin, a former Ohio Wesleyan athletic director who has studied the history of the university's sports teams, uncovered a letter written by one player in that 1890 game, describing the playing field near a creek called Delaware Run. This weekend, Ohio Wesleyan has scheduled a ceremony to install a historical marker at the site, with dignitaries from both universities attending.
"Ohio Wesleyan, as the first team Ohio State played, is extremely important to our football history," said Archie Griffin, the Buckeyes' two-time Heisman Trophy winner, who was scheduled to attend the dedication. "They really got it started for Ohio State."
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