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...arrangement for a third game in case of a tie in the two games decided upon. Yale refused to consider any proposition which provided that the third and deciding game should be played after June 27. On the contrary she insisted on having the third game played on neutral grounds in May or early in June, if played at all. This is the same condition which she tried to force upon Harvard last spring. Harvard then tried to arrange four games and a fifth in New York or Boston in case of a tie, the place being determined...
Yale offered only two plans: first, a series of three games, the first to be played on neutral ground and the third in New Haven, which Harvard declined to accept; and the second, two games with no arrangement for a play off in case of a tie. The final agreement practically amounts to the last proposition unless Yale alters her stand...
...which Yale saw fit to reject. The only ground whatever on which Yale would conclude arrangements, was the same as that taken last year. She insisted that the first two games should be arranged as they are now and that the third and deciding game should be played on neutral grounds in the latter part of May or June, - that is, Yale demanded that the tie game should be played first, before one could tell whether or not such a game was even necessary...
...this time of the year, when everybody is interested in the approaching contests with Yale, a resume of the results of our games with her, since base ball has become a feature of college life, may be of interest. The first game between Harvard and Yale was played on neutral ground in the year 1868. Reference to the scores given below will show how imperfect the game was at the time of this first game. The scores which today would seem large were at the time nothing unusual, were, in fact, the rule rather than the exception. We give below...
...idea of playing the first game on neutral grounds strikes one as simply absurd. It has never been done before. There would be little interest taken by the undergraduates in a game played on neutral grounds, and there is no excuse in the world for playing games on neutral grounds except in case...