Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reported late last night that Yale had decided to play Harvard in Cambridge, next Saturday...
...Harvard Amateurs will play the Roxbury Latin School eleven on the Cambridge common this afternoon, at 3.30. The Amateurs will be made up as follows: Merrill. '89, Keene, '91, Cummings, '91, Freeman, '92, Child, '92, Walker, '91, Burnham, '90; quarter-back, Beckwith, '91; half-backs, Duucan, '90, Endicott, '90; full-back, Healey...
...second half Harvard played a totally different game, and showed up much more strongly than in the first half. Princeton got the ball at the kick-off and Ames punted in front of Harvard's goal. Harvard's ball. Harvard now played harder and for some time the ball was kept in the middle of the field. Ames again made a good punt, which Sears returned. Ball went to Harvard and Sears broke through, and by a beautiful rush, carried the ball down towards Princeton's goal, but this advantage was soon lost. Play now began to be very rough...
Dear Sirs-Your letter of the 14th inst. in answer to ours of the 12th is at hand. We are sorry to learn from its contents that you have failed in your endeavors to persuade your athletic committee to allow the game to be played as scheduled. Considering the fact that Harvard has had since a year ago to play the game at New York, in which time the constitution stated that the two leading teams of previous years shall play at New York, in which to come to her present conclusion, we do not feel in any way under...
...Yale rests her case solely on the constitution of the foot-ball association, and if any change is made it must be by vote of the association and not a single college. Harvard's peremptory demand that the game be played in Cambridge is very extraordinary to say the least. The Gill-Beecher letter, on which Harvard founds her claim, was merely the private opinion of two members of the university, and was never intended as an agreement binding the college: but even if it was, the later action of the two colleges, agreeing unconditionally to play in New York...