Word: yale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Walter L. Camp, Yale '80, is writing an article on track athletics at Yale, for the Century...
...Week's Sport says that if an All-American football team were made up it should be composed as follows: Rushers-Cumnock (Harvard), Cowan (Princeton), Cranston (Harvard), George (Princeton), Heffelfinger (Yale), Gill (Yale), Stagg (Yale); quarterback, Poe (Princeton); half-backs, Lee (Harvard), Channing (Princeton); fullback, Ames (Princeton). It gives as the substitutes, Dean (Harvard), Trafford (Harvard), Black (Princeton), and McBride (Yale), behind the line, Janeway (Princeton), Stickney (Harvard), Donnelly (Princeton), and Rhodes (Yale) in the line...
...these five gentle men were and are "bona fide students on the rolls" of the University; against four of them efficient protest was lodged by this Committee or some other authority of the University; so that only one of them played in the games against Princeton and Yale...
...eleven. It would have been much more to the point to have presented evidence in the "official statement" in refutation of the wide-spread opinion that three of the players put on the field by Princeton at the beginning of the year, two of whom played against Yale and Harvard, are professionals, and ineligible, for any college team. One of these gentlemen, Mr. Ames, is currently reported to have received specific sums of money for his services on base-ball teams at different times last summer in Chicago. At a meeting of the Advisory Committee held in New York...
...tuition, etc., free. The athletic men at Princeton get by all odds the best treatment in any of the colleges. I would like to talk it over with you personally. If you will accept an invitation from me to come down and spend Sunday-say to one of our Yale games. If you will do this it shall be at my expense; I am talking to you with full confidence, Mr. Stickney, that if you do come down it will be to judge the question on its merits. I will be very glad to have you accept this invitation...