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Yesterday afternoon Mr. Kimball was much pleased to receive the following telegram from the President of the Princeton Foot-Ball Association who had learned through the New York papers of Harvard's action in regard to foot-ball at the mass meeting Wednesday evening...
About 6 o'clock a telegram came from Amherst announcing the result of the game. The news of the victory spread quickly among the students, and preparations were at once made for giving the nine a reception worthy its achievements. Notices were posted that barges would be in readiness to convey into town all who wished to go, and the hour for starting was fixed at 8.45. During the time that the men were waiting for the barges, the disagreeable drizzle that had lasted all the afternoon changed into a constant and heavy downpour, but nothing daunted, nearly...
...Springfield where he expected to join the team as it passed through the city on its way to New Haven. Finding none of the men in the train, he telegraphed to the Yale freshman captain to know if the game was to be played, and received the following telegram. "No game to-morrow, Harvard Faculty object." In view of the facts which we published in last Friday's issue, we can well understand the opinion which the gentleman who received the telegram expressed when he characterized the telegram as a "downright falsehood...
...justify her position. On the matter of choosing a date, we had absolutely no choice. Saturday, Nov. 15 and the morning of the day before Thanksgiving were the only times Yale would even think of playing. About three days before the 15th, we received a telegram saying, "Will play Saturday or not at all." This was the first hint we had that they even thought of that date. Of course on such short notice we declined, inasmuch as we were in no sort of condition and would furthermore be deprived of several men on account of the Princeton game...
...they told one of our team who was in New Haven, and the game was thought settled. We made every preparation and on Friday morning were all ready to start, although we had no word from Yale in answer to our letters. Friday morning a telegram came from New York from one of our own men, saying there was to be no game. The class had had a third meeting and decided not to play after all. With beautiful disregard they here dropped the matter. They were not accountable for our actions-what mattered it if we all did come...