Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Harvard has long had pride in its achievement. Primarily the college is devoted to the task of educating young men in preparation for life, not for a professional career with the Chicago Bears...
Bill Bingham was not a ringer. He and Charley Brickley opened and operated a student laundry of the type found in many small colleges. Initiative and industry along proper channels will never be questioned; Bingham had both and successfully worked his way through Harvard in this manner...
Obviously this treatment is humane, and completely satisfactory to the waiters involved. In fact Bill Bingham's regime has been ever marked by a personalized sympathy with needy athletes, tempered only by his conviction that Harvard athletics must remain on an irreproachable pedestal...
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...