cowboycwr said:
I always find it interesting looking through the game programs or online histories of schools, awards, etc. and looking at those early years of football.
Schools played anyone and there was no method to it. they might play the same school/team twice in a season, have a random game in the spring or summer, and many of the teams were not universities at all. Or how many of the schools on those early schedules don't exist, don't play football at all or are now D2 or D3. The same is true for awards or national championships. You have players and teams that won that are now at schools that fit those categories just listed.
Those names are fascinating. Toby's was in Waco at Webster and 4th and some Baylor students attended.]
Had to be tough to make schedules until telephones were widely available in the early 1900's and groups of colleges started forming into conferences.
Found this note about Toby's advertising:
He (Toby) was discriminating in the selection of the student body (no women were admitted for the first several years), eschewing drinkers, smokers, "ill-mannered, badly groomed chaps or men of questionable morals."
"No student below the eighth grade is admitted to the shorthand department of this college," a 1902 catalog promoted. "Consequently, there is not a number of lazy, loafing ignoramuses idling their time away, taking the teacher's attention from desirable pupils."
Gotta assume the ones that could not make it in to Toby's were left to go to Add-Ran College.