 In the UK, it was published in 1913 by the Newbie Game Company under the title "Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit".Shortly after the game's formal publication, Scott Nearing, a professor in what was then known as the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, began using the game as a teaching tool in his classes.His students made their own boards, and taught the game to others.