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...request that they make answer. But since the communication of the Princeton Association contains grave public charges against one of the athletic organizations over which this Committee has supervision, we have undertaken to examine the evidence transmitted to us and also such other evidence as we could discover. This letter, which we beg leave to address to you, states the result of our investigations; and explains the present attitude of Harvard students towards Intercollegiate athletic contests. Since the public has been led to believe in the existence of "evidence" too damaging for publication, affecting the character of "a number...
...last summer in Chicago. At a meeting of the Advisory Committee held in New York, on Nov. 14, 1889, the Harvard delegate endeavored to have the true facts made known The Princeton delegate objected on a point of order, and all investigation was stopped. We have been shown a letter from a professor in Princeton College in which he says: "Although we deplore Ames' receipt of money on this occasion, this fact does not constitute professionalism, which is a habit." A second member of the team, Mr. George, had been since the beginning of the present college year...
...promise or engagement to pay present or past expenses or to make future compensation in any way. Neither has any member of the team benefited by any business arrangement while here." This, however, can hardly represent the invariable attitude of the Princeton Football Association. We have been shown a letter addressed to a member of the present Harvard team by a prominent member of the Princeton team, who was formerly its captain. From this letter we take the following extracts...
...another letter of Mr. Knowlton L. Ames, to Mr. Stickney, published at the end of section 4 of this letter, he says...
...further asserted that a number of the Harvard Eleven were offered pecuniary inducements to enter college to play football. "Evidence" is presented in support of this assertion. This "evidence" consists of two letters, two extracts from letters, one of which was not addressed to the officers of the Princeton Association but appeared in the public press, a reference to a fifth letter which is not produced, and finally reference to the trip to England made last summer by a baseball team consisting of seven collegians under the charge of J. W. Spalding of New York...