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| | Boston.com / Sports / College / Football / Gridiron gridlock |
 | | Rocky Carzo, 72 years old and a few million punts and passes gone by, figures it's time to kick up a little dirt on the sidelines, to be true to both his school and athletic history. |
 | | Carzo, the former Tufts football coach, athletic director, and now AD emeritus, makes a convincing case that the first true link in US college football's evolutionary chain was forged when Tufts squared off against Harvard at 3 p.m, June 4, 1875, on what was then Jarvis Field, just a short stroll north of Harvard Square. |
 | | Nonetheless, according to John Wooding, the Rutgers associate athletic director for communications, the '69 game remains the game's starting point. |
| www.boston.com /sports/colleges/football/articles/2004/09/23/gridiron_gridlock (504 words) |
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