Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...negotiations which were about as follows : A great deal of trouble was experienced at first in arranging a game with the Yale freshmen, and finally Harvard offered Yale half the receipts and half their expenses to play at Boston. Yale then declared that since Boston was not neutral ground to them, they would not agree to this, and all arrangements were consequently broken off. Then Harvard offered to play in New Haven on the same terms. This proposition was accepted, and a date was fixed for the game. But before our team had started, a notification was received stating that...
...where they would receive but little support from their class on account of the distance from Boston. Yale, however, would have had a great advantage on account of the short distance from New Haven. I then stated that we would play at Springfield, which place is generally selected as neutral ground. I cannot see why the share of the receipts of the game at Springfield would not have been as fair for one team as the other. Yale refused to play the game at Cambridge, but accepted the Boston base ball grounds, where the game was played, and where, contrary...
...length found necessary to play it at Cambridge, if at all. Last year it was Harvard's right to have the game played here. Our eleven, or our nine have not "been afraid manifestly to leave the friendly shelter of their walls, even to play on neutral ground." We urged '87 to make a stand against what was an evident injustice. If there is any cowardice, it is certainly not on Harvard's part, and we would ask the News to reflect whether urging their freshman nine to play in New Haven or not at all, is showing that "decent...
...members objected to the resolution forbidding college men to row, etc., with amateurs. They also objected to the resolution appointing a committee from faculties of colleges to have full supervision and control of the sports, and also to the one that contests between colleges should not be played on neutral grounds. Finally, they passed a resolution stating that, while the athletic associations of Columbia college desired to raise the standard of college athletics, it thought that could be better attended to by the students themselves, and urged that the matter be referred to the undergraduates. A call was issued...
...sixth resolution conferring all games to the home grounds, they consider as objectionable, because some colleges have none, and because, as has been so often said, it is fairer in deciding games to play on neutral ground. Then...