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...third and most important reason why this particular statement should not have come out at this time is that the Ivy League scheduling meeting irritated many other Ivy League schools and it is doubtful that this will react to Bingham's advantage when it comes to making up he 1952 football slate...
...perhaps the most serious consequence of Bingham's ill-timed and ill-advised statement is its possible after-effect...
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...
...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 method for obtaining the material to make up a "big time" team...
Perhaps the most damaging repercussion of all will be the sheer volume of people antagonized by the Bingham statement. Harold Stassen and the University of Pennsylvania are answering the alledged slur on their athletic purity. The Yale A. A. released a calm but firm reply to the statement that the Big Three contests didn't mean much any more. No doubt, Princeton, as the holder of the last three titles, will also take umbrage at this charge from the Big Three's cellar-dweller. Perhaps the rest of the Ivy League is perturbed by the fact that Harvard has announced...