Word: dave
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Harvard men naturally want a winning football team, but with the exception of Dave Egan and a few alumni cronies, Harvard men want a team representative of the University, and not a score of imported mercenaries...
Some time ago, this column discussed the unwarranted attacks of two ex-patriots upon their alma mater...John Tunis of Harvard and Larry Kelley of Yale. Add to that Hall of Shame the name of Dave Egan '23, who now exploits pet peeves for the amusement and stupefaction of Boston Record readers...
...best Hearst style, Egan yesterday buffooned Bill Bingham as a master hypocrite and the H.A.A. as a prude but shrewd sweat-shop. The gist of Dave's theme revolves as follows: Bill Bingham was a ringer in the class of 1916, who after graduation betrayed his own caste by cutting the pay of athletes employed by the H.A.A. kitchen; Harvard has a lousy football team and will continue the same way as long as Bingham bends backward from professionalism...
Like his predecessors, Kelley and Tunis, Dave Egan has confused fact with fancy. And his inevitable conclusion that Harvard turn pro is as distasteful as his purposeful misstatements of the truth...
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...