Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Intercollegiate Football League was due to the fact that the intense competition within that League had led to objectionable practices in all the colleges, which, as was proved at the meetings held in New York on Nov. 4 and 14, Princeton could not be brought to abandon by amicable agreement. The chief of these objectionable practices are-first, inducing good players to enter college, or to return to college mainly for the purpose of engaging in intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, putting on teams good players who are not in reality amateurs, but have received compensation for the practice of their...
...pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport...
...Harvard vs. Yale: Yale won-one goal to none. Harvard made two touchdowns but according to previous agreement these did not count. Thirteen years ago today Harvard, Columbia and Princeton formed themselves into a football association. Yale refused to enter...
...said Buckley further deposes that it was in accordance with an agreement made between said Ames, F. E. Culbertson, manager of the Joliet, Illinois, nine, and himself that said Ames and himself were to receive money for their services, that he and said Ames played in the aforesaid gamed between said Aurora and Joliet nines...
...following articles of agreement establishing a single graduate treasurer for all the athletic organizations of Harvard university have been adopted by the various associations. At a meeting to consider them, there were present the chairman and subcommittee on organizations of the Athletic Committee, and representatives from the Athletic Association, Base Ball Association, Bicycle Club, Cricket Club. Football Association, Boat Club, and Tennis Association...