Word: game
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Chauncy Hall forfeits membership by forfeiture of a game. English High admitted instead...
...Chauncy Hall. The first year of the association has proved the plan a success. A great improvement is noticeable in this year's teams over last year's, and about twice as many men tried to get on their school teams. The series this fall consisted of one game with each school, the game to be governed by the intercollegiate association rules...
According to the summary below the Cambridge High and Latin School team are winner in the series, with the Boston Latin a close second. The Boston Latin team has protested the Cambridge High and Latin-Boston Latin game on the ground that one of their men was disqualified contrary to rules. At an informal meeting of the donors of the cup, four of the six were present and they decided the protest against the Boston Latin School. The protest will be finally disposed of next Monday...
Several rules were discussed, particularly the one giving the referee power to disqualify players for foul tackling or roughness. The term "unnecessary roughness" was interpreted as including jumping on a prostrate player with the knees. The cases of Cowan and Wurtemburg in the Yale-Princeton game were brought up and their disqualification was declared unnecessary as they did not break the rule so interpreted...
...over to the crew, some recognition should be taken of the work done by the freshman eleven this year. The class can best show its appreciation of the victory over Yale by presenting cup or some other suitable trophy to every member of the team who played in the game last Saturday, and to the substitutes who played egularly during the fall. After the deduction for the cost of the trophies is made it would be wise to turn the surplusr emaining over to the crew, but first let the freshman eleven receive some reward for their well-earned victory...