Rugby football
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Men of the Gridiron
When Mount Allison and Acadia met again in Truro, on 17 November 1911, for another championship match, over 2,000 spectators were abuzz with anticipation. An onlooker reported on the excitement filling the stands prior to the start of the game in The Argosy (November 1911):
"It is the biggest event of the season, this football match between the rival teams of Acadia and Mt. Allison colleges. Although still half an hour before the time of the game, the banks are crowded with spectators, who are exchanging bright greetings and teasing remarks. There are people of all descriptions in this waiting throng. Here is seen a middle-aged couple, perhaps the fond parents of one of the players. Near them is a group of sports, who take no particular interest in the separate teams, but are here simply for the game. Running among the crowd, are some noisy school boys, who have probably excused themselves from their lessons 'to see the fun.' The great masses, however, are college students, eager, excited, jubilant rooters, sending back and forth over the campus, their songs of anticipated victory, making the cool air ring with the yells intended to inspire the men of the grid-iron."
Mount Allison, however, lost the match 1-0. Two years later, the King-Richardson Cup became the permanent property of Acadia after they won the trophy for a fifth time.
Mount Allison University rugby football team, 1911
Mount Allison University rugby football poster, 1905
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