Word: hubbard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Lampoon (funny monthly) was issued to insult Princeton (TIME, Nov. 22). The second time was when Princeton, having beaten Harvard in football "as usual," and weary of Harvard complaints, severed athletic relations. The third time was last week when a hulking onetime Harvard footballer, one Wynant D. Hubbard, 21, was discovered to have needed money badly enough to forget he was supposed to be a gentleman. Needy Mr. Hubbard had, for a sum, let Liberty (weekly) sign his name to an article charging Princeton with "dirty football." Sadly, bitterly, needy Mr. Hubbard recited instances of scratched eyes, bruised noses...
Princetonians coached to play viciously. Needy Mr. Hubbard ascribed to Princeton certain groining tactics which even lumberjacks abhor. . . . Harvard was officially silent. Individuals confusedly lamented the breach. Princeton formally quashed needy Mr. Hubbard's charges by publishing letters from the officials who had supervised all the games needy Mr. Hubbard had pretended to know about...
Just as the recent Harvard Princeton break had disappeared from the front pages of the newspapers, one Mr., Wynani Hubbard takes it upon himself to rekindle the fires, thus putting inter collegiate football at present on an equal footing with professional baseball. If these two outstanding American colleges and their graduates do not have enough self interest to curb such wild statements by unauthorized persons they at least owe it to their fellow sportsmen in collegiate athletics to be more discreet...
...regular channels such as the officials and football conferences. Individuals sometimes play illegal football in the heat of excitement, but it is impossible to believe that a Princeton coach would go so far as to have his whole team use the methods listed. The great advanced notices given Mr. Hubbard's article suggest that it is another publicity stunt and so by now he is doubtless more than satisfied...
...doubtful if the matter could ever have been thrashed out satisfactorily to both Harvard and Princeton even if the officials of both universities and the players involved had been called together around a table when it first became known that the Hubbard charges were to be published. "Dirty football" cannot be proved or disproved by conferences and discussions. But at least the charges and defenses could have been made within earshot of those involved. The Crimson has already voiced the opinion that the only judge who is competent to accuse a player or a team of "dirty football...