Word: minutemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Minutemen, who had hoped last Tuesday that the club could iron out difficulties with Harvard over the use of the stadium for its home games, announced yesterday that this Saturday's soccer opener against Toronto has been cancelled until later in the season...
Steiner's statement, however, claims that during negotiations the University had repeatedly warned that there would be no Minutemen games at the stadium unless the security were provided...
...Harvard was willing to provide a place for the Minutemen to play, but was unwilling to risk the expenditure of any money intended for educational purposes," Steiner said...
...Discussions between Harvard and the Minutemen have taken place over the past four months," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said in a statement released yesterday, "but a contract for use of the stadium was not signed. The Minutemen have known since early January that there would be no contract unless the Minutemen provided security for performance of their obligations, and the Minutemen have failed to provide security...
Michael Bosson, assistant to the president of the Minutemen, said yesterday that the talks are still continuing and that he hoped the statement could be retracted this morning, allowing the game to be played as scheduled. He added that the whole thing "came a little bit out of nowhere...