Word: game
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIRS.- I wish through your columns to call to the attention of those intending to go to the Yale-Harvard game, certain facts concerning the arrangement of seats at Hampden Park...
...south end of the grounds laid out for the game is a large grandstand, while along each side benches are to be built extending from the grand-stand to the other end of the field. Behind the goal posts at the north end of the field is the only place reserved for coaches and carriages...
...anyone who has attended the important football games in New York it must be perfectly apparent that the accommodations for carriages are utterly inadequate. Not only in the cramped space assigned to them, but in its position on the field the people who come in carriages are to be at a great disadvantage. From current reports from various quarters I judge that the number of coaches engaged for the Spring field game is nearly, if not quite, equal to that at a New York game...
...shabby proceeding to give such a poor place to the coaches which hitherto have had at least a respectable position on the field. I trust that measures will be promptly taken for altering what seems to me very absurd and unwise plans, and that all men who attend the game on coaches may have an even chance with other spectators...
...Glee club has been invited to sing at the Springfield Assembly the night before the Yale game...