Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feeling at Columbia is generally in favor of rowing Yale and Harvard at New London. Harvard and Columbia are tie in the championship series, each college having won six races. Yale rowed Columbia in '86, '90 and '91, winning the race in '90. Thus by the unwritten laws of boating, it is Yale's turn to challenge. There is a general sentiment against rowing Cornell, not arising from the success of the latter's crews, but rather from the fact that they draw their material from the first-year men of all departments, while Columbia takes men from the undergraduate...
...very glad that Columbia has seen fit to admit the Yale freshmen into the race with Harvard. Harvard has been anxious to row Yale a freshman race for some time, but her unwritten agreements with Columbia have seemed to prevent it. We hope that the success of the new plan will ensure the annual arrangement of freshman races between Harvard and Yale...
...crews of the two great eastern colleges acknowledging the superiority of our eight Yale's refusal to row is, however, one of the most unsportsmanlike acts ever known in the world of intercollegiate athletics Yale claims the championship of American colleges in boating. By all laws, written and unwritten, the champion of any branch of athletics is always bound to accept any challenges to that title, and a failure to do so entails loss of championship honors...