Word: played
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...extract is false from beginning to end. I cannot even imagine the source of Mr. Mowry's authority. I never held any conversation with him in which I gave utterance to the foregoing quotation and was never offered any inducement to play on the team either by Mr. Sears, captain eleven in '88, or anybody else. I shall write to Mr. Mowry and will advise you of the result of the correspondence...
...Editor of the Press: SIR-A statement recently appeared in New York and Philadelphia papers in which it was alleged that certain inducements had been extended to me by a prominent Harvard base ball official to enter the Harvard Law School and play on the Harvard base ball nine and football eleven. Though the name of Linn of the Harvard nine was not mentioned he has seen fit to deny that overtures were made by him. Under the existing circumstances, therefore, it seems desirable to state the existing hasis of the statement in the papers. Inducements of the character mentioned...
Fourthly, an allegation that the officers of the Princeton Association have in their possession "evidence that a number of the Harvard Eleven were offered pecuniary inducements to enter College to play football, and are at present beneficiaries of the college funds." A "portion" of this evidence was enclose to us, but was not published by the officers of the Princeton Association with the statement...
...Princeton college nine has arranged to play the New Yorks April 10 and 15; the Athletics, April 3, the Newarks, April 12; the Staten Islands, April 13; the Bergen Points, April 16; the Cuban Giants, April 17; the Detroits. April 20. Games have also been arranged with the University of Pennsylvania, with Rutgers college, and with the Jaspers of Manhattan college...
After the Christmas recess S. W. Sturgis, '90, and Nicolls will play three games for the championship of the college. Last year F. M. Brown, Sturgis and Nicolls were tie for first place, and as Brown has left college, the others drew lots to decide who should enter this year's tournament and who should be excluded to play the winner...