Word: yale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale foot ball management has decided not to protest any of the Princeton team. They prefer to play the same team which played Harvard, and stand or fall by the result. Yale men, however, are confident that the Yale eleven can defeat the Princeton team...
...inevitable that Harvard's withdrawal should bring up for discussion the long-mooted question of a dual league with Yale. Of the ultimate desirability of such a league there can be no doubt. At the same time it is fortunate that no definite binding action was taken upon this question. While the sentiment of the college is justly in favor of a dual league, the details of that league are of too considerable importance to be settled at once. The provision that any action of the football board, to whom the question was entrusted, shall be subject to the ratification...
...been called, using as a text a letter from Mr. Francis M. Weld '60. The scope of the letter was that Harvard should take some stand against professionalism, and after the letter had been read the subject was thrown open for discussion. Honore '88, moved that Harvard offer to Yale to form a dual league in football. The motion upon being seconded, was fully discussed by speakers from the floor, and Mr. Hooper '80, read two letters, one from Mr. Robert Bacon, of Boston, the other from Mr. Wetmore, of New York, both overseers. The writers of these letters state...
...inexpedient. Still the opinion of the majority seemed to be that Harvard should take some definite stand against professionalism in college athletics, and that the best means to attain the desired end was to withdraw unconditionally from the football league. Objections to offering to form a dual league with Yale were raised and were answered by the argument that Harvard in her stand against professionalism should not refuse to accept the cooperation of the first college ready to join her in her stand. The position of some of the graduates, that the time was not opportune for a withdrawal...
When the discussion was finished, a vote was taken on the motion as amended, and it was carried by a large majority. It was then moved to appoint a committee to have full charge of Harvard's future interests in football as regards a dual league with Yale. The motion was amended so that the present advisory committee on football should have charge of the matter and report to a meeting for ratification. After a good deal of discussion the motion as amended was passed, and the meeting adjourned. Following are verbatim, the two motions carried last night. I. Moved...