Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dennison told me that Sears said that if he would try for the Team and get on he would see that it would not cost him (J. D.) anything, if it cost Harvard $500, it would be all right. They would stand the cost...
...Editor of the Press: SIR-A statement recently appeared in New York and Philadelphia papers in which it was alleged that certain inducements had been extended to me by a prominent Harvard base ball official to enter the Harvard Law School and play on the Harvard base ball nine and football eleven. Though the name of Linn of the Harvard nine was not mentioned he has seen fit to deny that overtures were made by him. Under the existing circumstances, therefore, it seems desirable to state the existing hasis of the statement in the papers. Inducements of the character mentioned...
...Week's Sport says that if an All-American football team were made up it should be composed as follows: Rushers-Cumnock (Harvard), Cowan (Princeton), Cranston (Harvard), George (Princeton), Heffelfinger (Yale), Gill (Yale), Stagg (Yale); quarterback, Poe (Princeton); half-backs, Lee (Harvard), Channing (Princeton); fullback, Ames (Princeton). It gives as the substitutes, Dean (Harvard), Trafford (Harvard), Black (Princeton), and McBride (Yale), behind the line, Janeway (Princeton), Stickney (Harvard), Donnelly (Princeton), and Rhodes (Yale) in the line...
...have received from the President and Treasurer of the Princeton University Foot-Ball Association an "official statement" dated Nov. 27, 1889, in regard to the members of the Princeton and Harvard eleven for the present year. This statement contains...
Fourthly, an allegation that the officers of the Princeton Association have in their possession "evidence that a number of the Harvard Eleven were offered pecuniary inducements to enter College to play football, and are at present beneficiaries of the college funds." A "portion" of this evidence was enclose to us, but was not published by the officers of the Princeton Association with the statement...