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DEAR SIR.- My consultations with some of our graduates this morning resulted in the following final decision: Harvard must play Yale at New York on Thanksgiving day (?) forfeit their championship game scheduled for that time and place. Yale' position on that question is unapt table and will remain so. Yours truly; WILLIAM H. CORBIN...
...manifestly impossible for Harvard to overrule the decision of the athletic committee on this matter, Mr. Corbin's letter made it necessary for Harvard to forfeit the game, which was done. The Harvard management immediately sent the following challenge to Yale, to which no answer has yet been returned...
DEAR SIR.- Your note of this morning is at hand. By its terms Harvard is obliged to forfeit, and hereby does forfeit, the championship game previously scheduled for New York on Thanksgiving day. We regret that such is the case. Feeling, however, that the season of 1888 would be incomplete without a contest between Yale and Harvard, we therefore offer the following proposition...
Stevens I stitute had scored 30 points to 0 against Dartmouth, on Monday when Captain Odlin withdrew his men and forfeited the game. The ground was very muddy, but in spite of that, Stevens made some long runs, and by good tackling and blocking forced back the heavier rush line of their opponents. Dartmouth was forced to play a kicking game from the start. In the first half, Stevens scored 24 points, and in the second had made a touchdown in one minute from the kick-off, and forced Dartmouth to a safety, when the latter team decided to forfeit...
...tournament opens this morning at 10 o'clock sharp. Players not up to time will forfeit their chance. The drawing resulted as follows...