Word: haveners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale-Wesleyan championship game was played at New Haven, Saturday and resulted in a crushing defeat for Wesleyan. Yale's team work, running and dodging were perfect, and Wesleyan, though playing a stronger game than against Princeton and Harvard, were helpless. The teams were as follows...
...HAVEN...
Dear Palmer-Your letter concerning the Harvard-Yale game is at hand. We think that the sentiments which you express are reasonable, and both Beecher and myself are ready to agree to them. This is the year when the game would, from the natural rotation be played in New Haven. But it is Yale's preference as well as Harvard's that the game should be played this year in New York. I don't see that this establishes the precedent of playing the game in New York at all. As far as it is in my power to judge...
...take a decided stand. We regret that it has been from our side, though not our fault, that this discussion might not have been brought up and settled earlier. Now, however, considering the circumstances under which the game was played last year in New York instead of in New Haven where it was originally arranged, we will state once and for all that we will play Yale this year in Cambridge on Thanksgiving day, and then and there only. We hope you will see the justice of this demand, and that Yale's honor will not permit...
...CRIMSON, but by some mistake they were given to the Associated Press. The one dated Nov, 2, 1887, is a copy of the letter written by Yale to Harvard in which Yale agrees that the game in New York should be looked upon as a game played in New Haven, and in which Yale also agrees to play in Cambridge this year if Harvard should so decide...