Word: buts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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It is further asserted that a number of the Harvard Eleven were offered pecuniary inducements to enter college to play football. "Evidence" is presented in support of this assertion. This "evidence" consists of two letters, two extracts from letters, one of which was not addressed to the officers of the...
"DEAR SIR: Messrs Sears and Cumnock speaking to the Andover Team last fall effered any man who would come to Harvard and get on their team their expenses paid through College. I myself was absent but was told by members of our Team, one of whom is now playing on...
There is no positive testimony here whatever in support of the serious charge against Mr. Sears and Mr. Cumnock. Neither correspondent himself heard them make the offer alleged, but each reports the fact on hearsay.
The testimony, further, is invalidated by errors of circumstance, as is shown by Mr. Cumnock's letter. He and Mr. Sears did not go to Andover "in the fall," but in the following March; they did not see the Andover team, but only three members of it. It is probable...
We find it difficult to weigh the value of Mr. Ammerman's statement, inasmuch as he declines to give any additional information. A member of this Committee, on seeing the original report of this transaction in the New York Herald of Nov. 16, wrote to Mr. Ammerman requesting further explanation...