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In 1889, University of Illinois student Scott Williams
noticed a bulletin board card announcing that anyone interested in playing
football should report to campus that afternoon.
That day he arrived to see a group of students chasing
and kicking a ball in a manner that barely resembled the game of football
that he played at State Normal University, more than 50 miles west of
Champaign.
After the boys' workout, Williams assembled the group
and gave it instruction on how the ball should be passed and kicked. He
also explained the scoring system and other points of strategy. The gang
reassembled and played a little while longer with Williams as their leader.
The following year Williams and some teammates approached
the heads of the athletic department with the hopes that they could represent
the UI in a game of football against Illinois Wesleyan at Bloomington.
Anticipating little enthusiasm, Williams suggested that the team pay its
own expenses, provide uniforms and pay its own train fare. Permission
was granted. The first University of Illinois football team boarded a
train Thursday, Oct. 2, 1890, to compete in the Illinois Oratorical Association
meeting in Bloomington, an athletic competition featuring contests in
track, tennis, baseball and football.
With Williams serving as coach, captain and quarterback,
Illinois lost to Wesleyan, 16-0. Although Illinois lost its first football
game, it did win the championship cup for the weekend's activities.
Illinois' second game of the season was against Purdue,
a team which had been under great preparation for the game. The Boilers
defeated Illinois, 62-0, but the young UI 11 had learned a few lessons
from the advanced Purdue team before entering the last game of its first
season, a rematch against Wesleyan.
Illinois hosted its first-ever home game Nov. 26, 1890.
The contest was met with great anticipation in the community. Nearly 300
fans arrived at the Champaign fair grounds to see W.F. Slater score two
touchdowns in a 12-6 Illinois victory, which ended its first season with
a 1-2 record.
Scott Williams stepped down as captain and coach
after the 1890 season, but remained on the roster as a player on the 1891
Illinois team, winners of all six games and champions of the Illinois
Intercollegiate Football League.
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