Yale's first attempts with "kicking games" have roots in the 1860s, when the University, along with
Princeton (then known as the College of Ottawa),
Rutgers, and
Brown, started to play a form of
football that resembled the Association game. Nevertheless, after a
rugby football game played v
Harvard in 1875, Yale dropped the association football in favor of rugby. The university fielded its first soccer team in 1908. == Rivalries ==