Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-16
HARHAnp,s uLr1mArum.

| The Football Game With Yale on Thanksgiving Day Must be Played in
 Cambridge or Not at AlI-Reasons foE
 this Decision and Why Yale Refuses l 10 Consent.
 BOSTON, Nov. 15.-In connection with the controversy between the football teams of Harvard and Yale universities as to where | the Thanksgiving game shall be played the Harvard football management have notified the Yale team that they desire to state. once l for all, that the Harvard team will play on l Thanksgiving day in Cambridge, and then and there only. Yale's representations 6 year ago were such as to convince the Har- yard management that if the team of the lat ter would play in New York that year the Yale people would consider the game as played in New Haven and tacitly agreed to play the Thanksgiving game in Cambridge in 1888. The Harvard management print 8 let ter from Gill and Beecher of the Yale team, written last year, in which they stated that if Harvard would consent to glay on the Polo grovnds on Thanksgiving day of last year Yale would consider that game the same as if played in New Haven. Harvard, therefore, holds that Yale must play in Cambridge this year, especially ss the Harvard faculty has forbidden the eleven to
 
 Cambridge.
 This is the Harvard side of the question. On the other hand the Yale football manage ment puts the question in this way: Har- yard in the football convention last month agreed to play on the Polo grounds Thanks giving day, the game to be forfeited to the one side if the other failed to appear there on that day. Furthermore, the partial agree ment, made by certain Yale representatives IA E kG~.IT @k ! oS,,I Yale to play in Cambridge this year, in vio- lation of the long observed custom between the colleges of contesting athletic sports in alternate years in New Haven and Cam- bridge.
 Captain Corbin was seen last night by COURIER reporter and asked if he would now yield and play in Cambridge rather than have no game at all. He replied most decidedly: 'sNo, Yale will not play in Cambridge"
 This settles the vexed question so far as Yale is concerned, and unless Harvard will consent to play here the game will be forfeit ed to Yale.
 Football In Canada.
 OTTAWA, Nov. 15-A football match for the championship of Canada took place here to-day between the senior teams of the Mon- treal club and the Ottawa college clnb. It resulted in a draw, neither side scoring slnSie polnG ouElnR Lne piAy, Wn1en occupleo an hour and @ half The Montreal team claimed the right to play fifteen minutes longer and the referee conceded the right, but afterwards withdrew his decision. The visitors gave notice that they would claim the championship.
 Army Commanders Transferred.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The following order has been issued by the Secretary of War:
 By order of the President the following changes of and assignments to command are ordered:
 Major General John NJ. Sehofeld, com manding the army, is at his own request re- lieved from command of the division of the Atlantic.
 Major General Oliver 0. Howard is relieved from the command of the division of the Pacific and department of California and as- signed to the command of the division of the Atlantic.
 Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles is re- lieved from the command of the department of Arizona and assigned to the command of the division of the Pacific and department of California.
 Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson, Tenth cav- airy, is assigned to the command of the de- partment of Arizona.