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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game today between Harvard and Yale is one of a series which has extended intermittently from November, 1875. In all, eighteen games have been played, and of these Harvard has won three and tied two. The victories were in 1875, 1890 and 1898. In the first of these games Yale was handicapped by playing under rules to which she was unaccustomed...
...Yale's game had consisted solely in kicking, while Harvard's allowed running with the ball, holding and passing. Yale made a concession and played under rules with which she was unfamiliar. As a result she was beaten, and the score, by the old system, was four goals and two touchdowns to nothing. In this game fifteen men played on a side...
...next year, playing for the first time with eleven men, Yale won by a score of one goal to nothing. Harvard made two touchdowns, but by previous agreement, these did not count. In 1877 Yale again wanted to play with elevens, but the Association to which Harvard belonged prescribed fifteen players. The game could not therefore be arranged. The next year however, Yale yielded to the demands of the Association, and games were played with fifteens until 1880, when the eleven was finally adopted...
After the Springfield game athletic relations between the two universities were broken off, and were not resumed again until 1897. In that year a tie game was played at Cambridge, in which neither side scored. Last year Harvard defeated Yale at New Haven by a score of 17-0 in a game in which Harvard proved herself superior to her opponent in every respect...
...these preliminary arrangements are brought about between the American universities the details will be put in the hands of a graduate committee similar to that of last year, consisting of two graduates from both Yale and Harvard, who will be selected by the managers and captains of the two track teams. They would in all probability be the same men who acted in that capacity so admirably last year...