Harvard athlete Nathaniel Curtis challenged Yale's captain, William Arnold to a rugby-style game.

[6] He took one look at Walter Camp, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain Gene Baker "You don't mean to let that child play, do you?

[11] Though it was not a founding member of the Intercollegiate Football Association ("IFA"), which agreed on November 23, 1876 to play using the rugby union code, Yale often played per those rules as its competition agreed to use the rugby union code rules.

By 1893, forty thousand (40,000) spectators showed up to watch Yale play Princeton on Thanksgiving in New York’s Manhattan Field.

Ivy Rugby formed committees to manage the league independently of the Territorial Area Unions.

The following year, Yale graciously accepted Princeton's request to make the match special for both teams by creating a trophy in memory of Rob Koranda.

[20] Rob died in a Chicago porch collapse in June 2003, a tragedy that claimed 12 other young lives.