Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR-I enclose with this a clipping from the New York Herald of the 16th inst. and will be much obliged to you if you will deny or confirm the statement therein made that an influential member of the Harvard nine endeavored to get you to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard...
...means employed, the writer urges that Harvard may put herself in such a position that with all truth she may make this announcement: This university is for learning first, for gentlemanly sports next, for professionalism not at all." The letter printed below is a bad confirmation of the last statement. As to her being for gentlemanly sports, one of her men in Saturday's game showed he could be the reverse by slugging his Yale opponent after he had been disqualified for striking the same man, an act which hitherto has been unheard of. Here is the copy...
...Princeton football management has made a statement regarding the Princeton eleven. It contains a certificate of the faculty that every member of the eleven is an undergraduate pursuing a regular course of study in the college. The full text of the statement is as follows: The Princeton university foot ball management desires to make public the following official statement in regard to the members of the eleven which played Harvard upon November 16 and will meet Yale on November 28, first, as to their college standing; second, as to their receiving pecuniary compensation...
...Professor Sloane, of the committee on out door sports, desires to state that after extensive inquiry and the exercise of due diligence he endorses as true to the best of his knowledge and belief the following statement, which we herewith make in regard to pecuniary or academic compensation...
This evidence has been forwarded to the Faculty Committee on Athletics at Harvard College, together with the above statement as to the Princeton team, with the request that the Har-Foot Ball Association make a public retraction of the general charges made against the Princeton management...