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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reply to the letter of Captain Sears and other members of the Foot-ball management, Yale has sent the following letter...
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...
...intended that the appended letters should be first published in the 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...
...Boston Globe of Wednesday contains a letter from Princeton in which the crippled condition of the eleven is commented upon and lamented. It says that the excitement attendant upon the Harvard-Princeton game of next Saturday is very high. The backing of the team on the field while practicing has noticeably increased of late, and all good plays have elicited generous applause...
...there is another and more important point involved in the change of Harvard's athletic policy, which I ask to be noted as the pith of this letter. Under the present system where students are at a loss to know what will be done next, or whether their outlays and training may be made naught at the last moment by some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats...