Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard, 11; Dartmouth...
...game today between Harvard and Yale is one of a series which has extended intermittently from November, 1875. In all, eighteen games have been played, and of these Harvard has won three and tied two. The victories were in 1875, 1890 and 1898. In the first of these games Yale was handicapped by playing under rules to which she was unaccustomed...
...first game of the Harvard and Yale series was played at New Haven, November 13, 1875. Harvard had formed a football club three years before, but the Universities could not agree upon a code of rules to govern the contest. Up to this time, Yale's game had consisted solely in kicking, while Harvard's allowed running with the ball, holding and passing. Yale made a concession and played under rules with which she was unfamiliar. As a result she was beaten, and the score, by the old system, was four goals and two touchdowns to nothing. In this game...
...next year, playing for the first time with eleven men, Yale won by a score of one goal to nothing. Harvard made two touchdowns, but by previous agreement, these did not count. In 1877 Yale again wanted to play with elevens, but the Association to which Harvard belonged prescribed fifteen players. The game could not therefore be arranged. The next year however, Yale yielded to the demands of the Association, and games were played with fifteens until 1880, when the eleven was finally adopted...
Yale lost no games to Harvard from 1878 to 1890. In 1879 there was a draw, and in 1885 intercollegiate football was forbidden at Harvard. In 1888 Harvard was compelled to forfeit the game, since the faculty would not allow the eleven to play in New York, while the Yale team was not allowed to play out of that city...