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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...
Another chapter was added last night to the story of Harvard-Princeton football when W. D. Hubbard '23 received confirmation from two sources of the charges which he advanced in a recent article in Liberty. George Braden '26, who was on the football squad for three years in college, issued a statement charging that he cancelled his entrance application for Princeton University at the last minute because of treatment which his brother had received at the hands of a Princeton football team. Professor George L. Owen, father of George Owen '23, is the signer of a letter released...
...this, I telegraphed Jim to ask him what I should do. He never answered, but I went back to prep school for another year and finally entered Harvard. That is all I know about the subject, and I am telling it not for any desire to back up Hubbard personally, but because I think he is doing an excellent thing in trying to clean up the game. I shall not tell the name of those concerned in the story unless Princeton demands...
...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...
Robert Fisher, Harvard head coach for most of the time to which Hubbard's changes relate, condemns him unqualifiedly and hesitates to make any comment "o specific charges lest will give impetus to a subject that should never have been brought up." Representative Hamilton Fish, a former Harvard captain, is "ashamed" "that any ex-Harvard player should rush into print and charge Princeton football teams with deliberately playing dirty football and being coached to disable their opponents by illegal and unfair method." Fish played in a period when Harvard was almost uniformly victorious under Haughton's coaching...