Word: hand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Your favor of April 20th is at hand and in reply I would say that our position in regard to the arrangement of an additional game is unchanged...
Your favor of April 25th is at hand. As we understand your position you object to a possible third game after Commencement Day because it is difficult to keep your players together after the close of the academic year. This does not seem to us a sufficient reason for declining our proposal...
...June instead of the last week in that month as we suggested at our conference, the tie game might easily have been played before vacation. We should not and do not take any exception to the date you have chosen for the New Haven game. But, on the other hand, since it is your selection of so late a date as Tuesday, June 27th, that throws the possible tie game into the vacation, it does not seem to us just for you to make that selection a reason for declining to play off the tie in the manner customary among...
...Haven. Such a plan is, we believe, unprecedented in the annals of sport. The objections to it are obvious. If either university wins the first two games, there is no occasion for a third game unless we are to play ball for gate receipts only. If on the other hand the first two game result in a tie, by your plan, the tie game would be played at New Haven or on your Commencement Day, so that the natural advantage of playing on your own grounds would be increased to the highest point by the multitude of Yale men among...
...proved by another contest. We never heard of any other college beside Yale which objected to this order. The third point that stands out conspicuously is Harvard's sincere desire to make every possible concession to Yale, except that one which is manifestly so unreasonable. On the other hand, it is noticeable that Yale does not make any sportsmanlike effort to ease the way to a settlement of the difficulty...