Word: yale-princeton
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Dates: during 1879-1879
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IMMEDIATELY after the Yale-Princeton game, there appeared an editorial in the New York Tribune on the subject of football. The tone of the article was against football in general, which is considered by the writer to be a "rude, not to say brutal" sport. Then the writer goes on to complain of the large number of men engaged in the game, and suggests "that reform is necessary in the direction proposed by some of the colleges, which is to restore the number of contestants on either side to eleven." This is on the ground that there would be more...
...GENTLEMAN writes to the New York World, to request that the Yale-Princeton football match, which is to be played in Hoboken, the 27th, be played in the morning, as, if he goes to see it in the afternoon, it will interfere with his Thanksgiving dinner...