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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...past has now been removed. It has been openly acknowledged at other colleges that Harvard's defeats during the past three years have been in great measure owing to the baneful restriction imposed by the faculty.- So long as these restrictions confrued, it was confidently maintained that we could never hope to equal other colleges in athletics...
...advised system of restriction, should be swept away. We ask this not in a spirit which "gets an inch and wants an ell," but because we deem it to be essential to the best interests of our Nine. Should this second petition be granted, we think the committee will never have reason to regret its action...
...professionals was all the coaching the nine received, except under the direction of the captain. Since the rule of the faculty was passed prohibiting all professional games or coaching, the nine has lost every series with Yale save one in 1885, and furthermore has, with one or two exceptions, never won an uphill game. I feel so strongly the importance of this practice to the success of the nine that unless it is given a fair trial once more, the nine, handicapped as it has been in the past few years, would be justified in withdrawing entirely from University contests...
...played in the nine for four years, during which time we played many games with the Boston and other professional clubs. During the entire time, I never saw anything of an objectionable character take place in our meeting with professionals. We never associated with them at all when off the ball field. They had no influence whatever with any of our men. On the other hand, we derived very great advantage from our games with them in base-ball proficiency...
President Barnard, in reply to a communication addressed him by Captain Willard, says that, as the students of Columbia College have never desired the liberty of playing with professionals, he is in doubt as to what would be his course in case of the rise of such a question. He further says that, although he personally regards unfavorably any proposition which would encourage students to engage with professional players, nevertheless there is something to be said on both sides...