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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...further asserted that a number of the 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...
...specially charged in the "evidence" that officers of the Harvard Football Association made offers of money to members of last year's Andover team. The only support to this assertion is found in the following, which we repeat here verbatim...
There is no positive testimony here whatever in support of the serious charge against Mr. Sears and Mr. Cumnock. Neither correspondent himself heard them make the offer alleged, but each reports the fact on hearsay...
...next charge in support of the statement "that the Harvard Management have offered pecuniary assistance to players" is that offers of money were made to Mr. Ammerman of the University of Pennsylvania. In proof of this the "evidence" offers an extract from a letter of Mr. Ammerman, published in the Philadelphia Press on Nov. 26, 1889, as follows...
...evidence" further contains a letter written on April 11, 1889, by Mr. Stickney, who played on the Harvard Eleven this autumn, to Mr. Knowlton L. Ames at Princeton. The only part of this letter-which is printed in full herewith-which can possibly be adduced as evidence in support of the charge against the officers of the Harvard Association, is the following extract: "I am tutoring now at Cambridge with the idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much...