The following is a copy of a valued archive:
^'The eighteen undersigned members of the Senior
Qass hereby do challenge an equal number — ^to be chosen
six from each of the remaining classes — ^to play a match game
of football on Saturday, December 9, 1871. The two sides
will meet at the Philadelphia Cricket Grounds at 10 o'clock,
each provided with a football. The side winning three
mounts out of five will retain the two balls. Should this
challenge be accepted you will please return with its accept-
ance the names of your eighteen players, after which no
substitutes will be allowed. (Signed):



1. W. M. Meigs

2. E. Hopkinson

3. Robt. P. Field

4. J. Bonsall Taylor

5. L. K. Lewis

6. Geo. T. Purves

7. R. C. Dale

8. Hood Gilpin

9. Horace Castle



o E. G. Hirsch

1. Wm. P. Huston

2. C. Elvin Haupt

3. W. H. Washington

4. H. Murphy

5. Sutherland Law

6. J. M. Murray

7. Louis M. Childs

8. A. Burt



To Messrs. H. Carleton Adams, William H. Addicks, and
John W. Townsend, Presidents of Junior, Sophomore and
Freshmen Classes."

Of the above-named, George T. Purves became a prom-
inent Presbyterian divine and a professor in the Princeton
Theological Seminary, R. C. Dale became one of the most
prominent members of the Philadelphia Bar, E. G. Hirsch
is the well-known Rabbi of Chicago, Louis M. Childs is the
Norristown lawyer, L. K. Lewis the Athenaeum Librarian,
and other names will be recognized as well known in Phila-
delphia affairs, past and present.
