Old-style football

The match contest between Brownson and Sorin Halls on November 11, 1890, is recognized by this website as the birth of interhall football at Notre Dame. This is partly because it was the first game to be played under the standard collegiate rules of the era. However, from the late 1860s to 1891, there was an alternate version of football that was also practiced on campus. After the advent of rugby-style rules in 1887, this local variation was posthumously dubbed "old-style" football. RecSports alludes to this chronology in their brief history page on interhall athletics.

For more information on the recorded old-style football games at the University of Notre Dame, click here.