Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, as most of the local press played it, was either completely inaccurate or misleading. For one thing; Bingham said Harvard was giving up "big-time" football. What is "big-time" football? He implied the football team would continue to play traditional Ivy League opponents. Six of Harvard's nine opponents are traditional rivals. Of the other three, everyone knew Stanford was only a home-and-home arrangement, and the Army contract runs until 1951. Holy Cross is hardly "big-time" in 1949. So what did Bingham accomplish by announcing Harvard would cease to he "big-time?" Precisely nothing...
Finally, Bingham announced, that the Big Three rivalry didn't mean much any more. This comment was not only ill-advised but downright untrue. If the Big Three rivalry means nothing, why do 60,000 people come to the Harvard-Yale game annually? Why does that game lead most of the Sunday sports sections the following day? Why does the Yale game count twice as much as any other game toward earning a letter? Why are the Harvard-Princeton and the Harvard-Yale games the only ones which undergraduates and alumni always attend regardless of price or team records...
Every metropolitan newspaper in both New York and Boston played the Bingham statement big, with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give up the big-time" is enough to send most athletic-minded scholars to Princeton and Yale...
...playing up the "big-time" angle the newspapers have completely subverted the purpose of the alleged University ruling to give some kind of job security to football players. This job ruling represents the first time that the University has ever considered the position of the football player as a special case. It implies at least that Harvard is actually trying to build up a football team by attracting new material. All of which brings us to the peculiar inconsistency of the Bingham statement. While it announces that Harvard will cease to play major league football, it also outlines a concrete...
...article continues: "The Big Three' no longer exists, Bingham said, and the Ivy League is a better set up. 'We've got a good program and we're going to stick in our own class. Big Time football...