Yale's Position.

The following extracts are taken from an open letter on the foot ball championship published in the New York Post and later in the Yale News, over the signature of Captain Richards of the Yale eleven. He says:

"Yale still retains the championship, which she has held for the past three years, and these are the reasons for her position: First, the score, which according to the referee, was 6 to 4 in Yale's favor at the end of an hour and seventeen minutes. Second, the referee's own opinion, publicly expressed, that, while declaring the game a draw, he considered Yale the victor; and it was his personal desire, conveyed to the Intercollegiate Association, that Yale should be awarded the championship. Third, the opinion of the Harvard delegation-a neutral body-that Yale is champion for 1884."

Again in closing he adds:

"This is Yale's position; she asserts that she neither hindered the recent game by disputes nor disgraced it by brutality; that her whole course in foot ball has been to benefit and open the game as much as possible; that in all beneficial legislation she has taken the initiative; and that by the spirit of the rules of the Association and in the opinion of Harvard-a neutral body-she is champion at foot ball for 1884."