Ives moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 1893, enlisting in the Hopkins School, where he captained the baseball group. In September 1894, Ives entered Yale University, …show more content…
He delighted in games at Yale and played on the varsity American football group. Michael C. Murphy, his mentor, once commented that it was a "crying disgrace" that he invested such a great amount of energy at music as else he could have been a champion sprinter. His works Calcium Light Night and Yale-Princeton Football Game demonstrate the impact of school and games on Ives' piece. He composed his Symphony No. 1 as his senior proposition under Parker's