Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Editors Herald-Crimson :-The statement in the Yale News that a written agreement was entered into early in the fall by which the Harvard '87 foot-ball team agreed to play in New Haven on November 21st. is untrue. We did not suggest a date for the game until Nov. 5th., when we proposed the 21st., but found that the game could not be played on this, the day before a university match with the University of Michigan, as Captain Appleton could not allow our backs to play the day before such an important game, It would have been equally...
...present below letters from the managers of the '85, '86 and '87 freshman foot-ball teams bearing on statements made by the Yale News in regard to the management of the freshman foot-ball games of the last three years. As the News in speaking of previous statements on the subject in an editorial column, cries out "Let us look at this statement in the light of facts," similar communications from the managers of the corresponding organizations at Yale would go far towards explaining the true inwardness of the charges made by the News...
...Courant is authority for the statement that Harris, pitcher of the Amherst team, says he will take the whole responsibility of the championship on his shoulders...
...present editorial board of the Yale Courant is the handsomest that has ever graced that paper, according to a recent statement in the Lasell Leaves...
This may be a lucid statement in connection with this subject, but we confess that we do not understand it. Is it a Yale joke, or is it the "Yale method" of argument? We confess we have not given the subject of betting any prominence in considering this subject, and although we may speak "but of the heart," we are not aware that we have spoken "out of the pocket." So far as it means anything, it seems to mean that we were influenced in our article by some betting interest in the game. Comment is unnecessary. Having mentioned this...