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Yesterday afternoon Captain Wrightington of the Football Eleven received a magnificent silver loving cup sent by the United States Military Academy Athletic Association at West Point, N. Y., to the Harvard Football Association...
...gift is a result of an event which occurred last fall during the football season. At the time of the Harvard-West Point game, the West Point management promised and paid the Harvard Football Association a guarantee of $250 to secure the game. When the association learned, however, that the West Point team was not allowed to charge admission to its games and was supported entirely by voluntary subscription the guarantee was returned. In recognition of this act, the cup was sent with the following letter...
...WEST POINT...
...generous gift of the Athletic Association of the United States Military Academy at West Point to our football association will be warmly appreciated here. Football at West Point is a comparatively new institution, and the athletic association as yet has no accumulated fund to fall back upon. The management is not allowed to charge any entrance fee to the games, and consequently has to depend entirely upon subscriptions collected from the students. When the Harvard Football Association realized this they declined to accept the money guaranteed them by West Point for their expenses in going to the game. In recognition...
...West 38th Street, New York City...