Word: player
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...addition to this the following letter was received by Captain Ames last spring from Mr. Stickney, who played on the Harvard Eleven this fall. We understand that the Yale Management was similarly approached by this player...
...purpose of becoming a member of the Eleven, and to have left it as soon as the football season was over. It is further strengthened by the following admission of Captain Poe, published in the New York Evening Post, of November 2, in regard to a third player, Mr. Wagnehurst, who was lately a member of the New York professional Baseball Club: "We do not deny that the reason of his returning for a post-graduate course is to play football...
...second is an extract from a letter of L. D. Mowry, a former Andover player...
These rules were passed by the combined efforts of Yale and Harvard, but proved ineffective. A Princeton player, who was challenged under them as ineligible to play, took refuge in a technicality at the meeting held Nov. 14, and refused to answer any questions, and Yale and Harvard were outvoted by Princeton and the smaller colleges. The Harvard Football Association then felt that only one course was open to it, namely-to withdraw from the present League, and to frame rules which should suppress present objectionable practices, and should govern the constitution of its own team hereafter. This course left...
...regarded as payment for your services, as in limiting you to a certain amount it was not intended that it should be looked upon as an allowance for your services, but we merely wanted to have a limit on the amount of the expenses of the players so that they would not lead us into extravagant expenses. For them to consider that you and your friends who went to England at the expense of our firm are Professionals, is just about the same as to consider that every College Club player who travels at the expense of his club...