Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reading of a telegram from referee Harris in which he gave, as his final decision, that the game was a draw, excited much indignant comment on the side of Yale...
Last Saturday evening the convention appointed to make a final decision regarding the Yale-Princeton game met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. The following delegates were present: Princeton, Captain Savage, C. Bird, and H. Hodge; Yale, Captain Corwin, Frank G. Peters and 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...
About five thousand people saw the final struggle for the foot-ball championship. It had rained hard all right, and all day up to the time of game had drizzled so that the field was slippery and in places covered with water...
...half two touch-downs were made by Holden, but no goal was kicked in either case. A brilliant rush by Sears resulted in a third touch-down. Holden secured another touch-down before time was called, score 18 to 0. In the second half Remington secured a touch-down. Final score...
...demand that the Thanksgiving day game be played at Princeton, Yale telegraphed: "Cannot accept your conditions. Please consider this decision as final...