Eagle Archive: Gridiron beginnings 120 years ago were humble for 'Green Terror'
Eagle Archive By Kevin Dayhoff,
November 30, 2011
This season has marked the 120th anniversary of the football team at McDaniel College.
According to Dr. James Lightner's history of the college, "Fearless and Bold," the first football season at then-Western Maryland College, in 1891, consisted of five games.
"On October 31, 1891, the first WMC football game was played in Westminster" against Pennsylvania College, now known as Gettysburg College.
WMC lost that day, 64-0. Lightner reports…http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-eagle-archive-1204-20111130,0,4142448.story
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