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How Worcester Academy broke from Groton in Sports

Thursday, November 19th, 2009
by frank.callahan

1906 Worcester Academy Football team picture

1906 Worcester Academy Football Team Captain Greenwood

The students of Worcester Academy broke athletic relations with the Groton School because of an incident after their football victory over Groton in 1906. Traditionally, the victors kept the game ball as a trophy. However, Endicott Peabody, the founder of Groton, insisted that the ball first be passed to him. When he failed to return it, the Academy’s representatives decided to drop Groton in football and baseball.

Though there was a long account of the game in the Vigornia, there was no mention of the incident after the game in the school paper.

Endicott Peabody gained fame by educating generations of great young men and was known for his sense of fair play in sports. Sadly, this incident stopped a rivalry in sports which had started in the 1880s. Since then Worcester Academy and Groton have not played each other in baseball or football — a span of more than a century. Here is the article from the Boston Globe dated March 3, 1907

BREAKS WITH GROTON

Worcester Academy refuses to play football with school again because of row over ball.

   WORCESTER, March 2—It was announced here today that athletic relations between Worcester Academy and the Groton school have been suspended as a result of an unusual occurrence at the end of the annual football game at Groton last fall, which the Worcester team won by a score of 17 to 0.
   Prof. Peabody, head of the Groton school, acted as one of the officials of the game and at its close the Worcester boys took possession of the football intending to bring it home as a trophy in accordance with the usual custom. It is claimed that Prof Peabody demanded a return of the ball from Capt. Levi Greenwood of the academy team and Don Nichols, the old Harvard player, who had coached Groton, was appealed to for a ruling on the ownership of the ball.
He said it was customary for the winning team to take the ball and Prof Peabody said he would give the ball up if it had been given to him in the first place, and further, that if it were not returned he would never let another academy team play Groton.
   The football was returned to him by Capt. Greenwood but the master of the Groton school, it is claimed, retained possession of it. Manager Karl Mertz of last year’s team wrote for the ball, but did not get it, and when it came time to arrange the 1907 schedules for the baseball and football teams the WA officials decided to cut out Groton altogether.

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