Haverford Fords football

Haverford Fords football
First season1879
Last season1972 (1972)
LocationHaverford, Pennsylvania
ColorsRed and Black
   
RivalriesSwarthmore

The Haverford Fords football team represented Haverford College in college football. The team started in 1879, just the third school in Pennsylvania to field a football team. The team was rivals with Swarthmore.

The 1894 game claims to have the first "action shot" photograph of a game. College athletic director James Babbitt was an important figure in the 1905 rules negotiations that brought the forward pass, 10-yard first down and other innovations into the game.

Haverford no longer has a team. The school ended the football program in 1972, after only 9 players joined the team of the expected 30, an insufficient number to field a team. This resulted in the cancellation of all eight games scheduled for the 1972 season.

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