Word: fair
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York. The feeling here is that Princeton, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania joined forces and advanced a proposition to the effect that Yale should play Harvard at Cambridge and Princeton at Princeton. They argued that as Harvard had a new and inexperienced team, it was no more than fair that Yale should give them the benefit of playing on their own grounds, and that as Princeton had come to New Haven to play Yale, last fall, it was simple justice for Yale to go to Princeton this year. The Yale men offer no objection to the first proposition...
...score ten to nothing. There was no more scoring after this, though once the Stevens men were forced right down to their line, but their half-back ran round our rushers and saved them from a safety. Harvard had a chance for a goal from the field from a fair catch by Peabody; but there was too much wind and it was missed. During this half the Stevens rush-line played a much better game than ours did. They were nowhere near as heavy, so that they had very hard work to block Harvard and stop our men from breaking...
...goal failed, the ball going sideways across the field, and Fletcher made another touchdown from which no goal was kicked. Porter got the ball from the kick-out and ran it back almost to the line, when Fletcher carried it across again. No goal, the ball being kicked fair where Stevens got it. When they next lined up, Smith got through and stopped a kick, and Remington dropping on the ball, made another touchdown. No goal. When the ball was kicked out Porter sent it back, and Wood made a touchdown. No goal. Harvard in a few minutes...
...occasional Ode, Fair Harvard, written by the Rev. Samuel Gilman, of Charleston, S. C., was then sung...
...teams, the constitution was set aside, and as Yale then held the championship, the game was played on the New Haven grounds. This year the edict of the Princeton faculty is still in force, so that the game cannot be played in New York, Consequently, by every principle of fair play and justice, the game should be played in Princeton this year. But no; Yale made two objections. First, that the Princeton faculty could be easily persuaded to change their decision, and secondly, that the constitution prevented the game from being played elsewhere, except in New York. The result...