New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-24

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mo DAY GAME ARRANGED.
,,-,,..to,-yale annual football game has been
snsht on paper this year little longer than usual inc
dustsa in this city, of both colleges who contribute
,roney 10 the support of the various athletic orgamDa
lions Of these institutions and are DESTROYS OF
having the game played, think that u Is "oo"'
time 10 end the farce ana 90
little advertising in view of the fact that the game
takes place at ALL will be played tomorrow As the mat
s ro stands the Princeton men are firm In their con-
icons that the game ought be played at Princeton on
thanksgiving Day with Princeton referee, while the
vale men AFRO equally certain the Polo Grounds should De
the place for the game, In fact any large groh"
where money may be made. which necessary article 'hey
cav cannot be found In little country
town. But Yale offered compromise
short time ago to play at Princeton
with ex Captain Frank c. Peters referee or 10 play ~
Staten Island with Tracy Harris, Princeton graduate
ma referee Princeton refused both offers and neid out
firmly for Jersey mud and Jersey man for referee
The controversy as the place OF the game began In
this way II provided by the constitution OF the Inter
Collegiate Football League that the final game
I,otweeu the two leading colleges shall he played
nj the Polo Grounds on Thanksgiving Day. On this clause
Yale puts all her claims. But the Princeton faculty De
cided early In the fall by avoe OF about three 10 onc
the football players Of that college shoud piay '"o
championship games hereafter on the ground Oh one VI
the two contesng colleges This decision distinctly gave
cold shoulder. and Princeton men tmnk tha'
their faculty mean TO abide by that decision
Now on this very point Yale and Princeton men strongly
disagree II appears that the athletes from
think that the Princeton students could influence 'heir
faculty TO revoke decision This imputaton on thc
facultys ability abide by its decision is strongly resen
ted by the wearers OF the orange ana DlacK-
Rut their strong point Is the fact that the
game WIS played at New-Haven last year
with Yale graduate as referee Walter e camp ana
therefore according 10 every principle OF 1ar play 'e
game should be played at Princeton as the FACULTY oo
cisop limits the grounds TO New-Haven and Princeton
Yale men however assert that New Haven was chosen
last wear simply to obige Princeton because at the
last moment her faculty interposed and voted that
Princeton should not play that year on the POLO
Grounds As Yale had the championship 1t was proper
therefore the Jersey men should 20 10 Ne"ha'eh
they wanted to play at all Princeton had no ALTERNATIVE
and went to New-Have with Lamar as Yale men reoo
lect and won the game. Now that the Princeton
faculty has again placed interdict on the Polo
Crounds and Princeton has the coveted champion
flags she feels position to remind Yale that her loot
ball men went New Haven last year. and consequently
what fair for is fair for another ana names
Princeton as the place for tn great contest All tnis
ground has been gone since the football convention
that met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel In October
decided that Princeton and Yale should play NJ
Princeton on Thanksgiving Day Yale is now attacking
Prnceton grounds and claiming that they are not III 10
play on they Jersey mud after rain STORM An
old Yale football player said yesterday:
Holden. Of Harvard OF the most brilliant fcotpa
players country through the entire Yale team
I'm the game last week on tho Boston base
ball grounds and made touchdown Now when Harvard
played Princeton at Princeton Harvard had the ball
time and time again in Princeton's tenyard line, ana
Holden could not get through the Princeton rushers
because whenever he made run he slipped in the mud
The Harvard men could do nothing on account OF lie
mud" -, ,,,-..
IL is generally thought that Yale will play at Princeton
tomorrow. Yale men feel confident or wllnlhg
Mr. Camp teegraphed Captain Corwin. OF Yale yestcr
day TO appoint ale graduate to meet princeton
graduate aud neutral man in the evening at the ruin
Avenue Hotel, TO try 10 effect some compromise.
The conference Of football representing Yale ana
Princeton, met last night at the tlfth ave
nue. Hotel and decided that the Iale-P Princeton
game should played at Princeton tomorrow with Tracy
Harris, Princeton SO. referee. Walter C. Camp so
and George Adee, 81 represented Yale X Hodge, 90
and c. W. Bird So represented Princeton Full authority
was given To Mr. Camp to act for Yale. He offered 10
place the matter in the hands OF a Harvard
graduate or a Princeton graduate and also pro
posed that Harvard man be chosen for referee,
but the Princeton insisted their own terms ana
they granted The game Will probably De called az
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