Word: forfeiting
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...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...
...refused to accept any proposition made by our management in regard to the regular championship game, insisting that Harvard should play on the polo grounds on Thanksgiving day, even though she knew that that was impossible through no fault of our own. She has therefore forced us to forfeit the championship game. In doing this she has willfully overlooked the assurance given by Captain Beecher and Mr. Gill of last year's team...
...management, having been obliged to forfeit the championship game then offered to play an exhibition game in Cambridge. This concession was met with the surly reply, "We cannot consider the question of an exhibition game." What may be the reasons of the Yale management for this rejection of a fair offer, we can only conjecture. If it is because she wishes to humiliate Harvard she has wasted her discourtesy. If it is because she does not need the financial aid which an exhibition game would give her, she is better off than we has reason to think...