On November 23, 1876, Reps from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia fulfilled for the Massasoit Dwelling lodge in Springfield, Massachusetts to standardize a new code of rules according to the rugby recreation very first launched to Harvard by McGill University in 1874. The principles had been based mostly mostly within the Rugby Football Union's code from England, even though a single crucial big difference was the substitute of a kicked objective having a touchdown as the main indicates of scoring (a alter that would afterwards manifest in rugby alone, favoring the test as the principle scoring function).

The first 4-workforce league expanded to sixteen teams in 1933 when Pop Warner, who had just been hired as the new coach of the Temple University football group, agreed to provide a visit lecture for the boys inside the league. In his honor, the league was renamed the Pop Warner Conference.[209][210]