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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...accept an invitation from Yale to meet her in football or in all the sports either for one year or for a term of years. Harvard as the defeated party opened negotiations in April for a football game. Yale officially terminated these negotiations by Captain Thorne's letter of May 11. In common courtesy it was Yale's part to reopen negotiations if they were to be renewed at all. It was Harvard's place to maintain a dignified silence until an invitation should come from Yale. The plan by which certain Harvard graduates who neither had nor claimed...
Yale has been unwilling to send an invitation in the customary form for a game of football. Mr. Stewart did, however, submit a proposition to the Harvard Committee, for its approval, in the form of two letters, which, as he said, had been prepared after consultation with Captain Thorne and Yale athletic advisors. Mr. Stewart assured us that Captain Thorne would send one of these letters if Captain Brewer would send the other in reply. This proposed correspondence seemed to the Committee to be in substance a repetition of the request in Captain Thorne's letter...
...letter was yesterday received from the manager of the University of Michigan football team. The letter stated that Michigan was willing to postpone her game until November 9, in order that Harvard might play with Princeton on November 2. This assures a football game with Princeton on the second of November...
...been injured offered or was willing to enter into a copartnership for a term of years in all sports with the party alleged to have committed the injury, the vindication was complete. It was too late to get Yale men together during the summer, but they were consulted by letter and the plan was approved...
...committee acknowledges the receipt of the letter of Mr. Sears of Harvard and the telegram from Professor James Barr Ames, authorizing Mr. Sears to represent Harvard in writing Princeton a proposition to play Harvard a football game in Princeton on Nov. 2 next and a return game at Cambridge next year, provided satisfactory adjustment of the rules can be made, and they would ask that Captain Brewer appoint a meeting with Captain Lea to adjust rules and arrange details of the game, the committee at the meeting to consist of the captains and a graduate of each college...