Word: teamed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leave again to correct an extraordinary misapprehension on the part of the officers of the Princeton Association, for which they must alone be held responsible. The Harvard Football Association has not "publicly based its withdrawal from the League upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players." It has made no charges whatever against the Princeton Management, whether "general" or special...
...these objectionable practices than Yale or Harvard. We leave it to you and to the public to judge from the evidence presented in 1 and 2 above whether or not she can justly be thought to have yielded to them this autumn in the constitution of her Football team. She is certainly on record as having opposed the passage of the rules aimed at their suppression, which were proposed in the convention held on Nov. 4. She alone voted against them, and the captain of her team is reported by the delegate of the Yale team to have said...
...Harvard were outvoted by Princeton and the smaller colleges. The Harvard Football Association then felt that only one course was open to it, namely-to withdraw from the present League, and to frame rules which should suppress present objectionable practices, and should govern the constitution of its own team hereafter. This course left open for future consideration the question of forming a new league...
RULE 1. No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public Athletic Contest, either individually or as a member of any team, unless he can satisfy the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports that he is, and intends to be throughout the College year, a bona fide member of the University taking a full year's work...
RULE 2. No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public Athletic contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who either before or since entering the University shall have engaged for money in any Athletic competition, whether for a stake, or a money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any Athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument...