Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remedy for this seems to lie in confining the appointment of the referee and judges to members or alumni of neutral colleges. This being done, one of the most serious questions would be met. At present the judges use their time in coaching their respective teams, and are unable to give proper attention to the whole game, consequently as the judges always disagree, everything of necessity falls to the referee. With three impartial judges these difficulties would be obviated, and a degree of fairness would at once become the spirit of the game...
When, however, the statement is made that "in the opinion of Harvard,-a neutral body,-Yale is the champion for 1884," we confess that the fancy is carried a little too far. Harvard expressly stated, in a mass meeting of the students, that she did not agree with nor approve the sentiments expressed in the letter sent down by three private individuals to Yale, and we would call the attention of Captain Richards and the Yale News to this statement again. We do not care to enter into any controversy between Yale and Princeton. The foot ball championship has been...
...seventeen minutes. Second, the referee's own opinion, publicly expressed, that, while declaring the game a draw, he considered Yale the victor; and it was his personal desire, conveyed to the Intercollegiate Association, that Yale should be awarded the championship. Third, the opinion of the Harvard delegation-a neutral body-that Yale is champion...
...brutality; that her whole course in foot ball has been to benefit and open the game as much as possible; that in all beneficial legislation she has taken the initiative; and that by the spirit of the rules of the Association and in the opinion of Harvard-a neutral body-she is champion at foot ball...
...Provided Yale and Harvard win all the remaining games, Yale at that time will have nine games won and one lost, Harvard eight games won two lost. If Harvard should win, the colleges will be tied for first place, and the deciding game will have to be played on neutral grounds. If Yale should lose one game of the remaining four, the game on the 21st will decide the championship. Harvard, by losing one of her Dartmouth games, will be "tied" with Amherst for second place, provided Amherst loses but one game. There are numerous combinations in all of which...