Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...games in the last ten years. What could be gained by this forthright announcement? Nothing except the opinion that Harvard is afraid to play anybody it has not been formally introduced to. Yale didn't announce it would never play Vanderblit again, but it won't. All such a statement by Harvard could create is ill will...
...above four criticisms are on the statement alone; now we come to the question of timing. That Bingham should even discuss the problem of intercollegiate football at this time with the press, either on or off he record, is a greater blunder...
...third and most important reason why this particular statement should not have come out at this time is that the Ivy League scheduling meeting irritated many other Ivy League schools and it is doubtful that this will react to Bingham's advantage when it comes to making up he 1952 football slate...
...perhaps the most serious consequence of Bingham's ill-timed and ill-advised statement is its possible after-effect...
Every metropolitan newspaper in both New York and Boston played the Bingham statement big, with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give up the big-time" is enough to send most athletic-minded scholars to Princeton and Yale...