Word: protester
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale foot ball management has decided not to protest any of the Princeton team. They prefer to play the same team which played Harvard, and stand or fall by the result. Yale men, however, are confident that the Yale eleven can defeat the Princeton team...
...more honorable record than Princeton victorious. But enough of what is passed; there is work ahead which we must undertake. Harvard has stood foremost this year in an endeavor to uproot professionalism from college athletics. It is her duty to continue that endeavor. If possible, indeed, she should protest Princeton's doubtful players again, not of course to cancel their work in Saturday's game, but to hinder them from playing during the remainder of the season. The plea that by so acting we shall be doing Yale's work is no plea at all. It is the principle...
...Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan, the delegate from the latter college taking two hours to cast the deciding vote. Harvard offered to waive all technicalities and to produce for oral examination the four Harvard men, Dean, Cranston, Stickney and Upton, who were on hand to answer Princeton's protest, provided that Princeton would do the same with Ames. Princeton refused, resting her decision on the point of order, even though Harvard claimed that her evidence was so strong that she would accept no affidavit. The result of Princeton's action is that the five men in question, Ames, Dean...
...necessary that all the colleges in the league be required to furnish certificates that the members of their athletic teams are bona fide members of their college. In accordance with this rule Harvard has sent to Princeton the certificates of her own players, and at the same time has protested Princeton's men, her object being to obtain return certificates for the men whom Princeton intends to play next Saturday. The demand of Harvard does not offset professionalism at Princeton any more than it does at Cambridge, and seems, therefore, thoroughly fair and sportsmanlike. Harvard certainly is not desirous...
...occupy the space which might have held nine hundred and sixty men. Seven hundred and twenty men, therefore, would be disappointed in their seats-a sacrifice which the men who are going in coaches ought not to expect. In behalf, then, of these seven hundred and twenty men I protest against the graduate's request...