Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcement that this evening's dinner will offer an opportunity for the free discussion of the present athletic situation is welcome news to all for while this privilege has been fully open before, there are yet several important phases of the question deserving attention which have come into prominence since the Yale-Princeton game, and which have not, therefore, received anything like careful attention. If is, of course, foreign to the purpose of the dinner that any definite move whatsoever should be made-that is at once undesirable and out of the question; but the hope is entertained that there...
...Seeing that Harvard and Yale have in an unsportsmanlike manner agreed to make a combine or trust and play exclusive football between themselves, the Philadelphia Item has decided to offer a silver football valued at $250, as a trophy for competition, emblematic of the intercollegiate football championship of America, open for competition among all colleges of America, Harvard and Yale barred...
...game is also condemned. There is a great deal of difference between a game played strongly by both teams, which is necessarily rough, and one when the aim of a team is evidently to knock their opponents out or to use them up so that they are unfit to offer any resistance...
...meeting had been called, using as a text a letter from Mr. Francis M. Weld '60. The scope of the letter was that Harvard should take some stand against professionalism, and after the letter had been read the subject was thrown open for discussion. Honore '88, moved that Harvard offer to Yale to form a dual league in football. The motion upon being seconded, was fully discussed by speakers from the floor, and Mr. Hooper '80, read two letters, one from Mr. Robert Bacon, of Boston, the other from Mr. Wetmore, of New York, both overseers. The writers of these...
...athletics must be purified at any cost, that any underhanded action shall be discountenanced, that undergraduates as far as they are professionals, and graduates, unless they are bona fide members of the university, shall be prohibited from participating in intercollegiate contests. It is intended at tonight's meeting to offer an opportunity for the free expression of college opinion on the matter under consideration...