Word: play
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assail any individual or group for not choosing to play football, but nevertheless this points up the fact that the College's already seant supply of material is further reduced by the progeny of those who do the most complaining...
...sure just how far his finances will go towards paying for college, and who does not know how much college will cost him in toto in the first place. Neither of these aids include any provisions that force a man to play football...
There seem to be two solutions to the present football confusion. The first is to abandon all pretexts that we are a major college football team and play purely New England schools and one or two traditional rivals. The second is to take a positive attitude toward the game which supports all other athletics at Harvard, and do enough promotion work to at least produce a team which is halfway up the Ivy League scale...
...Administration decides to continue its hyper-hands-off football policy, then certain things must be done. First, we should play only the three traditional Ivy rivals, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, and pad the rest of the schedule with Amherst, Connecticut, and N.Y.U. Under this system we could easily achieve a season record which could always be better than .500. Unfortunately, since Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale are already out beating the bushes for young football players, we suspect that our traditional rivals will win about 75% of those games...
Second, the H.A.A. should lower the ticket prices. It seems hardly a justifiable business practice to charge $4.20 or even $3.60 to see Harvard play an obviously poor football opponent. The quality of the football played should be reflected at least to some extent in the price of admission...