Abstract
From 1906, when Robert Murphy took the helm of the football program at Washington & Jefferson College, he set up contests against Princeton, Harvard, Army, Navy, Cornell, and Yale. When asked why he chose to pit the teams of his small school against those colleges, he responded, "Why not? W&J always had a real team, even though it had to be drawn from less than 500 students. The big fellows, like Yale, Harvard, and others are the ones we want to beat, and the only way to beat them is to play them."
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