Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...June 22d, and a game in New Haven on June 27th, we hereby invite you in case these games result in a tie, to play a third game on any day after June 27th, (our Commencement Day). and before July 5th. We are willing to play the game on neutral ground or, if you prefer, to toss for the right to name the place, the side losing the toss to have the right to name the place of the next tie game in a subsequent year...
...have proposed as an alternate plan that we play three games, whether the first two result in a tie or not, and that the first of these games be played on neutral ground, the second at Cambridge, and the third at New Haven. Such a plan is, we believe, unprecedented in the annals of sport. The objections to it are obvious. If either university wins the first two games, there is no occasion for a third game unless we are to play ball for gate receipts only. If on the other hand the first two game result...
...arrangement for a third game in case of a tie in the two games decided upon. Yale refused to consider any proposition which provided that the third and deciding game should be played after June 27. On the contrary she insisted on having the third game played on neutral grounds in May or early in June, if played at all. This is the same condition which she tried to force upon Harvard last spring. Harvard then tried to arrange four games and a fifth in New York or Boston in case of a tie, the place being determined...
Yale offered only two plans: first, a series of three games, the first to be played on neutral ground and the third in New Haven, which Harvard declined to accept; and the second, two games with no arrangement for a play off in case of a tie. The final agreement practically amounts to the last proposition unless Yale alters her stand...
...which Yale saw fit to reject. The only ground whatever on which Yale would conclude arrangements, was the same as that taken last year. She insisted that the first two games should be arranged as they are now and that the third and deciding game should be played on neutral grounds in the latter part of May or June, - that is, Yale demanded that the tie game should be played first, before one could tell whether or not such a game was even necessary...