r the balance of the Varsity's score, while a safety
was all that was permitted to Racine. In the autumn of the same year
Michigan played a tie game with Toronto at Detroit. Four cars filled
with students accompanied the team and demonstrated the growing
popularity of the Rugby game. The team fully deserved this support, for
the Canadian eleven was more experienced and even the _Chronicle_
acknowledged that they excelled in almost every part of the game. The
following fall Michigan won a second game at Toronto, 13 to 0, much to
the disgust of the Canadians.

For some time there had been a growing demand for a series of games with
Eastern colleges. As a result Michigan's first invasion of the East came
in the fall of 1881. The outcome was far from discouraging, in view of
the inexperience of the Michigan eleven and the greater interest in the
game in the East; for though the Varsity was uniformly defeated, the
scores were by no means overwhelming. The game with Harvard was lost 4
to 0, and those with Yale and Princeton, 11 to 0 and 13 to 4.

[Illustration: FERRY FIELD
From the New Stand, showing the gates and the Club House]

Inter-collegiate football was dormant the following year, but in
November, 1883, a second Eastern trip resulted in another clear
demonstration of the greater advantages the game enjoyed in the seaboard
colleges. The game with Yale was a decided defeat 46 to 0; but Harvard
barely avoided a tie with a 3 to 0 score; Wesleyan won 14 to 6, while
the one victory for the West was over Stevens Institute 5 to 1. The
Harvard game was the greatest disappointment as Michigan, with a much
better team than in the previous game, had hoped for victory. All the
circumstances, however, were unfavorable. The only possible schedule
called for a game with Yale the preceding day, and a series of new
rules were flashed upon the team as the only ones under which the
Easterners would play. The game, which was played November 22, was an
exceedingly close one, however, and the first half ended with neither
side scoring, and most of the play in Harvard's territory. A failure to
kick goal following a score by Harvard in the second half still left
hope, though Harvard repeatedly saved her goal by kicking. Finally a
Harvard man ran out of bounds on Michigan's twenty-five yard line and
the ball was thrown out from that point according to the rules then in
force. Michigan secured it and by using the one trick play in her
reperto