Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...specially charged in the "evidence" that officers of the Harvard Football Association made offers of money to members of last year's Andover team. The only support to this assertion is found in the following, which we repeat here verbatim...
...DEAR SIR: Messrs Sears and Cumnock speaking to the Andover Team last fall effered any man who would come to Harvard and get on their team their expenses paid through College. I myself was absent but was told by members of our Team, one of whom is now playing on Harvard's Team. SMITH MOWRY...
...Upton told me that Sears and Cumnock told him and for that matter the whole Atdover 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...
...rebuttal we present letters in which the charge is contradicted in every particular by the statements of every person mentioned who is accessible. Mr. Cumnock says: "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. The whole charge is false and without foundation from beginning to end." Mr. Upton says: "I did not state to Mr. L. D. Mowry or to any other person that money offers...
...next charge in support of the statement "that the Harvard Management have offered pecuniary assistance to players" is that offers of money were made to Mr. Ammerman of the University of Pennsylvania. In proof of this the "evidence" offers an extract from a letter of Mr. Ammerman, published in the Philadelphia Press on Nov. 26, 1889, as follows...