Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual fall convention of the Eastern Intercollegiate FootBall Association was held at Springfield last Friday night. Technology, Amherst, Stevens Institute, Dartmouth and Williams sent delegates, and the first matter taken up was the protested Technology-Stevens game. After considering the case, the convention refused to allow the protest, and awarded the game to Technology as played. According to the constitution of the association, no championship can be awarded in case two or more teams are tied for first place. As Technology and Dartmouth could not under any considerations play off the tie for first place, the convention could not award...
...tank may aid them and future crews to win many a race from Yale. The value of the tank has been sufficiently demonstrated by the success of the Yale crews of the past two years. Thanks are due to the college authorities for their kind permission to allow the old gymnasium to be used. The crew this year will have at least two months more on the water than they would have under ordinary circumstances...
...blue won from Princeton, they would have won from Harvard as readily, or more so. What Yale tries to make out by no means follows. It will go on record that the Yale team was enabled to win the championship of 1888 by forfeit, the Harvard faculty refusing to allow the eleven to play at New York, and the Yale management refusing to allow its players to go elsewhere. It has always been supposed that a standard of sportsmanship exists among the college men, different from that which prevails among the professionals, but such a feeling has not been observable...
...interests of fair play we are sorry that this thing has happened. But at all events our management is clearly absolved from all blame in the matter. They have acted as fairly and reasonably as their dignity and the necessity of the case would allow. They could scarcely allow themselves to be unjustly trampled upon...
Dear Sirs-Your letter of the 14th inst. in answer to ours of the 12th is at hand. We are sorry to learn from its contents that you have failed in your endeavors to persuade your athletic committee to allow the game to be played as scheduled. Considering the fact that Harvard has had since a year ago to play the game at New York, in which time the constitution stated that the two leading teams of previous years shall play at New York, in which to come to her present conclusion, we do not feel in any way under...