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Thank you, TIME ! FREEMAN H. HUBBARD...
...There on the front page in the left hand column was given prominence to the most beautiful bit of balderdash on the subject of alleged "dirty football" by Princeton, that has yet appeared. I say this with all due respect to the efforts in that direction of Messrs. Hubbard and Hardwick. One, Braden, who entered Harvard in the autumn of 1920 and graduated in 1926, accuses the 1919 Princeton team of having, intentionally and with malice afore-thought, inflicted damage to his big brother's nose, to the cost of $1000. This was all done by means of making...
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...