Word: publication
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...need not further specify the contents of the "official statement," since the whole appeared in the public prints some days before we received it, and has been the subject of much public discussion...
...circumstances any statement of the officials of the Princeton Football Association in regard to the constitution of their team would have been transmitted by us to the officers of the Harvard Association, with the request that they make answer. But since the communication of the Princeton Association contains grave public charges against one of the athletic organizations over which this Committee has supervision, we have undertaken to examine the evidence transmitted to us and also such other evidence as we could discover. This letter, which we beg leave to address to you, states the result of our investigations; and explains...
...these gentlemen; but we believe it a very serious detriment to amateur and to college sports that men who have voluntarily assumed the status of professionals should be received upon college teams. Since no protest against the reception of these men from within their own college has been made public, we feel that a different opinion prevails at Princeton...
...Harvard Eleven were offered pecuniary inducements to enter college to play football. "Evidence" is presented in support of this assertion. This "evidence" consists of two letters, two extracts from letters, one of which was not addressed to the officers of the Princeton Association but appeared in the public press, a reference to a fifth letter which is not produced, and finally reference to the trip to England made last summer by a baseball team consisting of seven collegians under the charge of J. W. Spalding of New York...
Experience seemed to show that Princeton, perhaps because of her smaller numbers, was more prone to, these objectionable practices than Yale or Harvard. We leave it to you and to the public to judge from the evidence presented in 1 and 2 above whether or not she can justly be thought to have yielded to them this autumn in the constitution of her Football team. She is certainly on record as having opposed the passage of the rules aimed at their suppression, which were proposed in the convention held on Nov. 4. She alone voted against them, and the captain...