Word: haven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter to arbitration, or to bring it up before the foot-ball convention and to abide by its decision. As it is now out of the question to play in New York, the college will go so far as to assent to the game being played in New Haven, and why this plan is not satisfactory to Yale strikes us as being extremely strange. There is no doubt that the game should be played somewhere on Thanksgiving day, and it is to be hoped that an amicable understanding may be reached tonight...
...news comes from New Haven that, not content with the present rowing advantages which Yale has over her competitors, it has been decided that a new tank is not only desirable but necessary, While Yale is thus showing energy and enterprise in boating matters, Harvard, in marked contrast, is apparently doing nothing to advance her interests in this branch of athletics. The defeat of last year has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that under present conditions Harvard's chances of winning are practically worthless. If we would compete with Yale on equal footing we must have a rowing...
...score of three goals to nothing. Since then, with but three exceptions, freshman foot-ball games have been played every year, and in some years two games took place. In 1877, the Harvard freshmen again succeeded in defeating the Yale freshmen, winning two games, one at New Haven and one at Boston, and losing none. In 1878 there was no game; but the year after Yale turned tables upon Harvard, her freshman eleven easily defeating the Harvard freshman twice, at New Haven and at Boston. In 1880 only one game was played. and Yale was again victorious; the game...
...played at all. The Yale management insist on holding strictly to the letter of the constitution of the association, which provides that the elevens holding first and second place shall play in N. Y. Thanksgiving day. Yale has not only not offered to play anywhere else,-Cambridge, New Haven or any other place-but insists that the Harvard team must meet the Yale eleven at New York on Thanksgiving or the game will be forfeited to Yale. The Yale management has taken this stand with the full knowledge that the Harvard team will be unable to play at the time...
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