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John Tunis '11, investigator and critic of Big Three football, is optimistic about the new Inter-University Committee on Eligibility announced by the Presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton last weekend, according to a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday.
In an article in the American Mercury a few weeks ago, Tunis accused the Big Three of indirectly subsidizing players and disregarding the Presidents' Code of 1916 which regulates their intercollegiate athletic relations.
"All rules can be broken. All rules have been broken. However, I am enough of an optimist to accept the new agreement between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to head off the spreading corruption of inter-collegiate athletics at its face value," Tunis said yesterday.
Therefore it should decisively be shown that it is now the responsibility of the college as a whole, rather than just of the athletic associations, to preserve the standards of these Universities. It will no longer be possible to say that only losing teams are amateur; Messrs. Tunis and Kelley...
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