Word: binghams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band will form in the Yard at about 4:30 o'clock and march down to the field past the Houses. Head Coach Dick Harlow, Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16, and Manager John F. Atherton '40, are now scheduled to speak...
...stands realized that the Crimson team hadn't even started to roll. The sad fact was that it had not made one first down. As a Monday morning answer for the Dartmouth rout, Boston sports writers launched an acid personal attack on the leaders of the H.A.A., Harlow and Bingham especially. In fact, a typical mid-season bout of asparagus-throwing has followed Saturday's game. Some carping alumni are even criticizing the spirit of the players, and yelling for Harlow to turn in his sweatshirt...
...Bill Bingham did discontinue the payment of athletes for waiting on tables at the Varsity Club, but the present hours and return are hardly as grim as Egan portrays. During the season needy members of athletic squads wait on the training tables for one hour at lunch and dinner six days a week. In return for 12 hours of work (two hours per day), the waiters are given all their meals including breakfast free, gratis etc., or the equivalent of $10 worth of House food...
Obviously this treatment is humane, and completely satisfactory to the waiters involved. In fact Bill Bingham's regime has been ever marked by a personalized sympathy with needy athletes, tempered only by his conviction that Harvard athletics must remain on an irreproachable pedestal...
With a typical cluster of Alumni 'sour-grapes', Egan concludes that the 1939 Harvard Varsity is the worst in history as "the logical result of Bingham's policy." There have been better Harvard teams, and despite Dave Egan, there WILL be better Harvard teams. But as long as Bill Bingham, and not Dave Egan, rules in the H.A.A., those teams will be non-professional, idealistically amateur...Thank...