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| In 1893, Drake was located on the western edge of Des Moines and had only two permanent buildings. It was several years before the football team played in anything resembling a stadium. |
| In 1881, Drake's first year, a Delphic editorial argued for intercollegiate athletics: Are we to have a class of weak, puny stoop-shouldered, sallow-skinned, sunken-eyed men or a grade which can be compared with any men in the west? O, faculty...wipe the soot off your gold-rimmed spectacles...and catch the college spirit. |