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...whole to be satisfactory and fair to both colleges. It is better to have no championship whatever than to have an unfair one, and make the already strong feeling between the colleges still stronger. It would have been unfair to award the championship to Yale on the strength of the Yale-Princeton game, for the weather, the condition of the ground and the darkness during the last half would not permit the strong points of either team to be brought out. At the same time, to stop the game twenty minutes before the full time had expired took away many...
Last Saturday evening the convention appointed to make a final decision regarding the Yale-Princeton game met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. The following delegates were present: Princeton, Captain Savage, C. Bird, and H. Hodge; Yale, Captain Corwin, Frank G. Peters and Walter C. Camp ex-captains of the eleven; Harvard, Captain Brooks, E. G. Kent and ex-captain Appleton; Wesleyan, Messrs. Stevens and Beattie; University of Pennsylvania, Messrs. Young and Posey. Mr. Savage presided. As soon as he had taken the chair, Captain Corwin of Yale moved that the championship for this year be awarded...
...impossible as yet to speak authoritatively in regard to the result of the Yale-Princeton game. A meeting of the executive committee will probably be held to-day and a decision may be reached. The questions to be decided are two in number: - first, whether Yale made a touchdown, as is claimed, and second, whether the score of a game called on account of darkness, is valid or not. According to Mr. Harris' decision such a game must be declared a draw. Opinions on the result of this contest have been advanced by certain of the daily papers, these assertions...
...spite of the rain, nearly ten thousand spectators witnessed the Yale-Princeton game at Princeton yesterday...
...large delegation of Harvard men will probably go from New York to Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day where the Harvard University of Pennsylvania game will be played and thence to Princeton for the great Yale-Princeton game. Special arrangements have been made for this trip...