On May 30, 1879, Michigan played its first intercollegiate football game against Racine College at White Stocking Park in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune called it “the first rugby-football game to be played west of the Alleghenies.” Midway through “the first ‘inning’,” Irving Kane Pond scored the first touchdown for Michigan. According to Will Perry’s history of Michigan football, the crowd responded to Pond’s plays with cheers of “Pond Forever.”