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...game are perfectly definite and are never disputed, umpires are provided for, and there is no opportunity for quarrelling about this nor as to where a match is to be played. Then, why should Harvard ask Princeton and Yale to form a separate league? The answer is ready enough: To boom college base-ball. How could the annual Yale-Princeton foot-ball game have become the paramount athletic event, that it has, if it were simply a game of a long series and played by two colleges of a large foot-ball league! Or, to draw an analogy from college...
...Wakeman, Yale's half-back, is seriously ill with typhoid fever, the result of exposure in the Yale-Princeton game...
...seen the contests of this year will admit that they would rather go to see a first-class slugging match than the mean, under-handed tactics that characterize Rugby. The season has been far from being a success, and ended in a fizzle. The convention should have ordered the Yale-Princeton game to be played over, which Princeton was ready and willing to do. As far as the championship is concerned, although there is no championship of 1886, Princeton holds the supremacy of foot-ball to-day, by reason of Yale's failure to wrest it from her, just...
...feel confident, however, that we have convinced Yale, that if the Princeton grounds are out of the question, the New Haven grounds are too. New Haven one year means Princeton the next. The fact is settled beyond dispute that the Yale-Princeton game must be played on neutral grounds hereafter. Old scores are settled and we are willing to begin anew...
...York Sun of Sunday contained an epic poem on the Yale-Princeton slugging match on Thanksgiving...