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Wynant D. Hubbard must be credited with an honest desire to get at the root of the Princeton-Harvard break by publishing his article in Liberty, accusing Princeton football teams of "dirty" tactics. He says, "I am writing this article with the sincere belief that it may help to clear the football air...that relations between Harvard and Princeton may eventually be resumed." It is highly unfortunate that such good intentions have been so unintelligently acted upon...
...there to prevent infringement of the rules. He is neither an excited partisan in the stands or an emotionally keyed up linesman or half-back in the heat of a hard game. His judgement, because it is obviously the best, must be taken as final. In none of the Princeton-Harvard games since the war has any member of either team received a major penalty. There have been one or two penalties for unnecessary roughness, some for holding and other minor infringements, all of which were quite evenly distributed, but there has been no action by any referee to indicate...
...only does Hubbard's article defeat its own avowed purpose, but the manner of its doing aggravates the public spectacle element in intercollegiate football and particularly in Princeton-Harvard football. If Hubbard had anything to say, and wanted to say it publicly, why did he not go to the Harvard Graduates Magazine or the Alumni Bulletin? If he wanted to clear the air between Harvard and Princeton, and settle once and for all the Princeton "dirty" football why did he not write for a Harvard-Princeton audience instead of going to a popular, sensational weekly whose circulation is largely among...
...stand is the result of the nebulous policies of the Harvard Athletic Association in this instance apparently more than maladroit, then, not alone is the stand commendable, it is reasonable. If, however, it traces more directly to the unpleasant episodes of the last weekend, the CRIMSON, while admiring Princeton's maintenance of a decent and convincing self respect, feels that the decision to break off relations with Harvard is too abrupt. The CRIMSON believes that such unpleasant incidents as those mentioned can be made unique in the history of Princeton-Harvard intercourse by means such as those suggested in yesterday...
There can be but one definite, sane, and satisfactory conclusion to all that has been said and written in the last few days about the Princeton-Harvard game, namely, that immediate action be taken to return that game to its place as an athletic contest between friendly and ancient rivals, two venerable and dignified American universities. It is too easy to make verbal gestures, either of derision or understanding and sympathetic cooperation toward a common end; it is often too difficult to let such gestures give way before adequate and conclusive action...