Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine thousand of the 11,000 tickets allotted to Harvard were sold here, while the surplus was returned to Princeton last week at the request of the Princeton Athletic Association, which needed them to fill local demands. Tickets turned in here this week will also be sent back to New...
And Princeton athletic authorities felt that they had even more cause to believe they were being treated shoddily when word started circulating that Harvard was trying to book a home-and-home two-year series with Michigan or Indiana to replace the Princeton game in 1927 and 1928.
Two other factors served to create an attitude of unpleasantness prior to the 1926 encounter. Princeton credited participation in the Yale game and the Harvard game equally towards getting a letter, while at Harvard a letter could be acquired only by playing in the Yale game. Princeton athletic authorities considered...
Within five days, Princeton had severed athletic relationships with Harvard in all sports, and the nation's press had risen to support Old Nassau and to describe Harvard's attitude toward her as "cheap" and "unsavory."
Said the CRIMSON, "The events of 1926 are veiled in legend. Today is one which starts a now era in our athletic history.