Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Inducements of the character mentioned, a scholarship and pecuniary compensation, a ticket to Boston, etc, were extended to me by a Harvard man early in November to enter the Law School at Harvard and become a member of the Harvard Nine and Football eleven...
...Upton told me that Sears and Cumnock told him and for that matter the whole Andover team that it would not cost them a cent if they would go to Harvard and get on the Team. Joe Dennison told me that Sears said that if he would try for the Team and get on he would see that it did not cost him (J. D.) anything, if it cost Harvard five hundred dollars ($500) it would be all right. They would stand the cost...
...addition to this the following letter was received by Captain Ames last spring from Mr. Stickney, who played on the Harvard Eleven this fall. We understand that the Yale Management was similarly approached by this player...
DEAR SIR: I have been thinking of late of going to Princeton to College. I am tutoring now at Cambridge, with the idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much for me. Now I have to have help wherever I go. I saw Bruny Willard the other day and he wanted me to write you he thinks P. is the place to go I have played fast [foot?] ball at Exeter for two years no doubt you have heard of me while...
...without reservation that I never made any such statements as are there ascribed to me, to members of the Andover team or to any persons at any time. I have never made any offer of pecuniary aid to any person, to become or to remain a member of the Harvard team, and such offers have not to my knowledge been made by any member of the Harvard Football Association. Moreover. Mr. Sears and I did not go to Andover "in the fall," but in March, and did not see the team but only three members of it, one of whom...