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After the game, the press cited this as one of the poorest showings of sports-manship they had seen in a long time, but when seen in the light of McCray's explanation, this charge seems extremely unfair...
Once the pressure of the moment was over, McCray said, they realized that such tactics are not in the best tradition of Harvard-Dartmouth relations, but one hardly ever thinks of such matters in similar circumstances...
...When McCray's appointment to the Harvard coaching staff was announced in Hanover last spring, he found himself confronted with a few congratulations and many half-smiling accusations of "Traitor." He found himself the butt of many jokes, and "So you're going to coach at Harvard" became a general battle cry among his room-mates...
...said McCray, "the atmosphere that pervaded all around was one surprisingly free of sincere apprehension, if what I thought I felt really bore out the true stimulus-individual-reaction sequence so well know to those of scientific bent. For fundamentally the Harvard-Dartmouth relationship is one of true sportsmanship, of the highest ideals, and of the utmost good faith...
Leaving his professional capacity aside, McCray is tomorrow a man without a country, and this is justly so. As between two colleges there can be no greater devotion when both meet in the same fine spirit