When Western Maryland and Johns Hopkins first got together to play a football game, Grover Cleveland was in office a second time and the modern Olympics were still a couple of years away.
Saturday afternoon at Homewood Field in Baltimore, the two teams will celebrate the 100th anniversary of their first encounter -- a 16-0 win for Hopkins in Baltimore.
Neither school is quite sure how many games have been played since. Hopkins has won 37 times and there have been four ties, but how many wins Western Maryland has remains uncertain.
Hopkins credits Western Maryland with 29 victories, while the Green Terror record book shows 31.
It's also been the final game on the regular-season schedule for both teams since 1947, except in 1963 when the game was canceled because of the assassination of President Kennedy.
The Green Terror (5-3) clinched its first winning season since 1990 with a 34-13 home win over Centennial Conference foe Swarthmore Saturday.
To close out the season at 6-3, the Green Terror will have to do something it hasn't done in the past six tries -- beat Hopkins at Homewood Field.
This could be the year. Hopkins (3-6) is 1-3 at home, while Western Maryland has won its last three road games.
Quarterback Brian Van Deusen will be aiming to set records. The junior has thrown for 16 touchdowns this season and 34 for his career; both totals are one short of tying school marks.
He also needs 203 yards passing to overcome his 1993 school record of 2,315.
Western Maryland's finest receiving class will be playing its final game. Alan Pietkiewicz comes in as the school's all-time leader in receptions with 127; Carmen Felus moved to fourth on Saturday in receptions with 83 career catches, despite playing just two seasons in a Green Terror uniform; and Butch Schaffer tied a single-season record with his eighth touchdown catch against Swarthmore and his 818 receiving yards is a school record.
Hall of Fame inductees
Five new members will be inducted into the school's Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, pushing the membership to 104 since the chartering in 1978.
The school's 17th Hall of Fame class is All-America swimmer Denise Frech (class of 1983), basketball standouts Richard Klitzberg (1963) and David Martin (1962), soccer and lacrosse great Vernon Mummert (1975) and the late Clifford Lathrop, a 1937 grad best known as a Green Terror running back.
The annual banquet and induction ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. in Western Maryland's Decker College Center Forum.