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Cambridge's response was not long in coming. City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 fired off an angry letter to President Pusey asking that the game be henceforth barred from Harvard Stadium. Four days later, it was reported that Boston school officials had blamed the riot on a band of nebulously-labeled "older hoodlums" and had attacked the Cambridge police for being unprepared to handle the crowd...
...both cities are clearly aiming their fire in the wrong direction. The game involves Boston residents on a field in Boston, but rather than appealing directly to Boston authorities to work out a solution, DeGuglielmo bypassed them and demanded that Harvard throw the game out of the Stadium. Boston officials disclaimed responsibility for the mob their game had created, and treated the riot as though it had nothing to do with the students from the two Boston schools...
...going to use the DeGuglielmo letter as a basis of discussion to see what can be done," Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for civic and governmental affairs, said yesterday...
President Pusey and Whitlock discussed the DeGuglielmo request yesterday. They decided to talk with Boston officials, Whitlock said, and then speak with DeGuglielmo and Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan to try to work out a mutually acceptable solution...
...DeGuglielmo called the incident an act "of pure animal savagery" and cited the necessity to prevent "displays of mob violence" in requesting the University to "outlaw any permission of future football games between the rival Boston High School institutions in Harvard Stadium...