Word: haven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following letter was sent to Captain Sears in answer to his telegram asking if Yale would play an exhibition game in New Haven...
...utterly unable to escape. If the members of the intercollegiate association had any idea that there was to have been any outside interference, as has been the case, it is more than probable that the game would have been played in Cambridge, or at all events, outside of New Haven...
...next place, our management, wishing to bring about the game with Yale if it were possible to do so, telegraphed the following message to Captain Corbin early yesterday morning: "Would you be willing to play even in New Haven? Answer at once." Up to the time of going to press no reply had been received, which, in itself is an act of egregious discourtesy on Yale's part. It is too late now for the eleven to go to New Haven, therefore there will be no game this year...
...meeting of Harvard and Yale foot-ball representatives was held at New Haven, Sunday evening. Messrs. Corbin, Gill, Stagg, Wallace, King, of the eleven, and Dr. Delevan represented Yale; for Harvard, Palmer and Sears were present. Harvard offered to leave the question to arbitration and abide by the decision of any judge chosen by both parties. To this Yale would not agree and in reply sent the following letter to Mr. Sears...
...regulations of 1888. The place of the game shall be decided as follows: Mr. Beecher, captain of the Yale foot-ball team of 1887, shall decide where the game shall be played, on condition that if Mr. Beecher deemed the game last year as counting for a New Haven game, he shall decide that this game shall be in Cambridge. If Mr. Beecher refuses to act in deciding the place, the choice of saying where the game shall be played shall be settled by a toss. The referee and the umpire agreed upon for the championship game shall...