Word: championship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved: that this convention has voted that we cannot as a convention, award the official championship...
...decision of the foot-ball association in regard to the championship for 1886 is so little of a decision that we may expect to see the discussion of 1884 repeated with even greater vehemence than ever...
...decision of the convention on last Saturday evening in New York seems as a whole to be satisfactory and fair to both colleges. It is better to have no championship whatever than to have an unfair one, and make the already strong feeling between the colleges still stronger. It would have been unfair to award the championship to Yale on the strength of the Yale-Princeton game, for the weather, the condition of the ground and the darkness during the last half would not permit the strong points of either team to be brought out. At the same time...
...Walter C. Camp ex-captains of the eleven; Harvard, Captain Brooks, E. G. Kent and ex-captain Appleton; Wesleyan, Messrs. Stevens and Beattie; University of Pennsylvania, Messrs. Young and Posey. Mr. Savage presided. As soon as he had taken the chair, Captain Corwin of Yale moved that the championship for this year be awarded to Yale. Mr. Bird, delegate from Princeton objected that the championship could not be awarded because Yale and Princeton won four games each; that Thursday's game was no game according to the decision of referee Harris. He added that the Princeton delegation would withdraw...
...Championship games...