Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFTER the 1968 Harvard football season, the Harvard Club of Boston gave a dinner for the first undefeated Crimson team in 50 years. George Lalich was asked to speak and he told the story of how he became the starting varsity quarterback...
...When we came to early practice the Boston area papers didn't even mention me as a prospect," George said. "The only guy they seemed to think had a chance was someone named Big Hole. The columns read 'and at quarterback the Crimson will have a Big Hole.' Well, I didn't know this guy Big Hole, so I decided to show up for practice and try my luck...
...found out it was potentially libelous. I immediately ordered it cancelled. The person who bought the ad tried to insert it again. I turned him down, telling him that it was unacceptable and that it had subjected us to possible legal action. At Professor Huntington's request, the CRIMSON printed a formal retraction, apologizing for inadvertent harm done...
Admittedly, editors of the CRIMSON often have critical opinions about the University, its administrators, its teachers, and its students. When we have such things to say, we say them in our editorials or in signed pieces on our features pages. We try scrupulously not to say them in our news stories. We do not say them in unsigned advertisements. We wish that the University News Office had tried as hard to check some of its facts before it issued this most recent report (as well as earlier ones accusing the CRIMSON of purposely suppressing letters from Faculty members, when...
...editors of the CRIMSON...