Word: team
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot ball game between the Boston Athletic association and the M. I. T. team, which was to have taken place on the Boston grounds Thursday morning was postponed until today at 2.30. The Emmelar scholarship fund of $5000 has been founded by the class of '91 at Wellesley. The meeting of the College Association of the Middle States and Maryland is being held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia...
...Princeton's evidence incriminating Harvard's players it seems rather to have been a second thought than otherwise. If Princeton has valid protests to raise against Harvard's team we fail utterly to see why these were not made at the New York convention when our challenged players appeared to answer any charges made against them, It must be remembered that the threat, or perhaps we ought to say the warning, of Princeton's manifesto has not as yet been pointed with any very telling evidence...
...will no doubt to a considerable degree accept the statements of Princeton's faculty as authoritative in reference to Princeton's players; and indeed we do not mean to question the honesty of their convictions. They are no doubt technically right in affirming that every member of the Princeton team is a bona fide member of the university. Very likely, too, in order to avoid criticism, all the members of the Princeton team will conclude to keep up their connection with the college until the end of the year-at least they will be subjected to the greatest pressure toward...
...This year the football management have adopted the principle of discouraging personal attacks upon members of our college teams through the press. But since the Harvard Foot Ball Association has publicly based its withdrawal from the league upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players, and since the withdrawal on these grounds has been, under misapprehension, approved by members of the Harvard faculty and board of overseers, as stated in the press, we assert that we have evidence in our possession that members of the Harvard eleven were offered pecuniary inducement...
This evidence has been forwarded to the Faculty Committee on Athletics at Harvard College, together with the above statement as to the Princeton team, with the request that the Har-Foot Ball Association make a public retraction of the general charges made against the Princeton management...