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Add to the evidence that football wasn’t some completely foreign concept at Auburn prior to Papa Petrie, PhD bringing his sophisticated, scrum-less version in 1891 this speech by an “old Auburn star”–possibly Dutch Dorsey–at a 1904 meeting of the Atlanta Athletic Club describing what was likely Auburn’s first encounter with a football.
“The game of football has certainly moved with a rush in the south. I remember the first year they introduced the rugby game at Auburn.