Stadium Size, Football Droppers, and Deemphasizers: NYU

This series reviews the program history and stadiums of colleges that dropped or deemphasized football. Click here for the series introduction. The schools included in the review are listed below.

NYU began playing football in 1873, before football was football, since American football's rugby-derived rules did not arrive until 1876. During its early football playing days, NYU's sole campus was in the Washington Square area of Greenwich Village, on the lower west side of Manhattan. Overcrowding l...