Word: captains
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gones and to accept an invitation from Yale to meet her in football or in all the sports either for one year or for a term of years. Harvard as the defeated party opened negotiations in April for a football game. Yale officially terminated these negotiations by Captain Thorne's letter of May 11. In common courtesy it was Yale's part to reopen negotiations if they were to be renewed at all. It was Harvard's place to maintain a dignified silence until an invitation should come from Yale. The plan by which certain Harvard graduates who neither...
Yale has been unwilling to send an invitation in the customary form for a game of football. Mr. Stewart did, however, submit a proposition to the Harvard Committee, for its approval, in the form of two letters, which, as he said, had been prepared after consultation with Captain Thorne and Yale athletic advisors. Mr. Stewart assured us that Captain Thorne would send one of these letters if Captain Brewer would send the other in reply. This proposed correspondence seemed to the Committee to be in substance a repetition of the request in Captain Thorne's letter...
...sharp. Game with English High School. Burrage will captain the team...
...This was in direct conflict with the previous understanding and compliance with it was promptly declined. In the meantime, Mr. Stewart, a Yale man in Boston, by invitation of a Harvard graduate, had met Captain Brewer and Dr. Conant at a dinner at the Puritan Club, and had discussed with them the football situation. It was suggested that letters might be passed between Captain Thorne and Captain Brewer which would meet the views of both sides, and the substance of what should be said was agreed upon. Captain Thorne was first to write to Captain Brewer with reference...
...football coaches held a meeting last evening relative to the proposed game with Princeton. Nothing, however will be made public until the matter is wholly arranged one way or another, but it is pretty safe to say that the game will take place. The matter will be arranged when Captain Brewer sees Captain Lea of Princeton the last of the week...