This was especially important to school officials because, for the first time in its roughly 100-year history, Lincoln Hall was competing in league varsity play against local public and private schools.
Instead of watching a game with socks and soggy chips with an umbrella, college football is an entirely different league and makes varsity appear like a low-level secondary school version.
Other athletic facilities at Queen's include the Athletic and Recreation Centre, which houses a number of gymnasiums and pools; Tindall Field, a multi-season playing field and jogging track; Nixon Field, home to the school's rugby teams; and West Campus Fields, which is used by a number of varsity teams and student intramural leagues.
He played freshman football and then started the last two seasons on the varsity, earning second-team all-Ivy League honors in 2009 and helping lead the Quakers to the Ivy title.
If you're in school, this is easy: even outside of varsity sports, there are often intramural leagues, casual games during lunch, or after-school programs available.
As Archie Manning tells it, Eli was a freshman and the junior varsity quarterback at Newman High School in a competitive league in New Orleans.
At Lehigh, which has 25 varsity sports and competes in the Patriot League, athletes on the volleyball, field hockey and soccer teams will return to campus only a few days before dormitories open, instead of a full week.
And suddenly the Giants, one of the least penalized teams in the league, looked like a junior-varsity squad squinting under bright lights for the first time.
The four girls played softball in citywide leagues and for the Holmes High School varsity before ending up together at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Tex., where they are seniors.
Ms. Wasilik, who is preparing for another year of widespread interscholastic sports in the private-school Fairchester League, joined a department with two varsity teams in 1966.
