Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual match with the University of Pennsylvania; and for this purpose, the tournament has been proposed, the end in view being to form a league of all the college teams, which will meet every year for a match, either on the grounds of the different colleges or on some neutral ground, easily accessible...
...forfeit when a team had been unable to reach its destination on account of the breaking down of a train, or a detention of some nature. Harvard has a good eleven. The Harvards played their game with the Princetons on the grounds of the latter, and not on neutral territory, as was the case with the Princeton and Yale game. There was therefore no chance of comparison under equal conditions. If Yale felt as sure of defeating Harvard as it pretended, why did the Yale management not consent to the playing of an exhibition game, which would count as nothing...
...rumored that Harvard, '91, will challenge the Yale freshmen to a game of ball to be played on neutral grounds. Yale News...
...through organizing so late in the season were debarred from competing for the cup offered by the American Foot-Ball Association, have challenged the Fall River Rovers, winners of the trophy, to one or a series of games for the championship of America. Game to be played on neutral ground...
...this plan, besides a possible international contest now and then with Oxford or Cambridge, there would be quite enough to satisfy the claims of athletics. Thus there will remain, say four games of base-ball-two at Cambridge and two at New Haven, and a fifth on neutral ground if necessary; the race at New London; the foot-ball game at the polo grounds, and, if thought best, one in Jarvis field and one on Yale athletic grounds; in addition, track athlects and tennis at New Haven and Cambridge, one at each place and alternating-or, these contests could remain...