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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that Captain Beecher throughout the recent discussion, urged Yale to play a championship game with Harvard at Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/28/1888 | See Source »

...university and second elevens did not play on Jarvis yesterday on account of the bad condition of the ground. The men took a sharp run up North Avenue and practiced tackling in the gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/27/1888 | See Source »

...Cambridge Latin and High School eleven has but one more game to play in the interscholastic series, and has practically won the challenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interscholastic Challenge. | 11/27/1888 | See Source »

DEAR SIR.- My consultations with some of our graduates this morning resulted in the following final decision: Harvard must play Yale at New York on Thanksgiving day (?) forfeit their championship game scheduled for that time and place. Yale' position on that question is unapt table and will remain so. Yours truly; WILLIAM H. CORBIN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Forfeits the Yale Game. | 11/27/1888 | See Source »

Harvard hereby challenges Yale to play a match game of foot-ball on Thanksgiving day, 188, such game to be governed in all respects by the inter-collegiate rules and regulations of 1888. The place of the game shall be decided as follows: Mr. Beecher, captain of the Yale foot-ball team of 1887, shall decide where the game shall be played, on condition that if Mr. Beecher deemed the game last year as counting for a New Haven game, he shall decide that this game shall be in Cambridge. If Mr. Beecher refuses to act in deciding the place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Forfeits the Yale Game. | 11/27/1888 | See Source »

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