Word: ties
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Chess Club has accepted an invitation of the Boston Press Club to play a match of two consultation games and a third in case of a tie. The games will be played Friday evenings, the first one being played to-night at the Press Club rooms. The following men have been appointed to represent the Chess Club: S. M. Ballou '93, G. B. Wilson '94, E. Goldmark '94, W. L. Van Kleeck '95, J. M. MacKayee '95, and J. Hewins...
...clock Saturday night. Saturday evening a telegram was received from Princeton accepting the dates and agreeing to play on the same terms as last year. This means that Princeton will play Harvard at Princeton on May 6, and at Cambridge on May 30, Decoration Day. In case of a tie a third game will be arranged...
Yale offered only two plans: first, a series of three games, the first to be played on neutral ground and the third in New Haven, which Harvard declined to accept; and the second, two games with no arrangement for a play off in case of a tie. The final agreement practically amounts to the last proposition unless Yale alters her stand...
...accomplishing its object, we looked forward confidently to another meeting at which baseball games between the two universities would be arranged. We are glad to announce today that two games at least are assured. As matters now stand, however, no provision has been made in the case of a tie. There is the same state of affairs in which we found ourselves last year. That this is unsatisfactory, Yale men as well as Harvard men will readily admit. We cannot believe that Yale's sportsmanlike spirit, or her sense of fitness, will let things remain as they are. A little...
...past years, we believe the custom has been to play the tie game on the Saturday after the boat race. To be sure this is inconvenient; both nines have to keep in training much longer than is desirable, yet there is no more injustice done to one university than to the other. This arrangement is certainly more reasonable and fairer to both teams that Yale's method of playing the third and deciding game first. In fact, we are surprised that in face of the unfavorable criticism this plan met with from all sides last spring, Yale could think seriously...