Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team failing to appear ready to play any scheduled game at the appointed time, shall forfeit the game to the opposing nine...
...player who forfeits one match must forfeit...
...couples winning the most games in each section will enter the final round. Prizes will be given to the winners of first and second places in this round. All games in the first round must be completed before Saturday evening, March 2. The executive committee may declare forfeit any game not played on the appointed date. The authority for the rules of the game will be the sixteenth edition of "Cavendish...
...that, because the wearers of the 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...
...things was so extraordinary that the matter ought to have been brought before the association at a special meeting convened for that purpose. If Yale can claim any glory from a championship won, as has been the case this year, well and good. It was like the claim of forfeit when a team had been unable to reach its destination on account of the breaking down of a train, or a detention of some nature. Harvard has a good eleven. The Harvards played their game with the Princetons on the grounds of the latter, and not on neutral territory...