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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...here be said that the Secretary of this Committee wrote to the President of the Princeton Football Association on December 3, requesting that all the evidence in his possession be sent to us. Particular request was made that a copy of Mr. Upton's letter referred to in the "evidence," should be sent. Mr. Miller wrote on December 13, that the person holding this letter refused to surrender it on account of its private character. This gentleman was then authorized by Mr. Upton by telegraph to make its contents known. We have not received it. We send you a copy...
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...
...rebuttal we present letters in which the charge is contradicted in every particular by the statements of every person mentioned who is accessible. Mr. Cumnock says: "I have never made any offer of pecuniary aid to any person, to become or to remain a member of the Harvard team, and such offers have not to my knowledge been made by any member of the Harvard Football Association. The whole charge is false and without foundation from beginning to end." Mr. Upton says: "I did not state to Mr. L. D. Mowry or to any other person that money offers...
...testimony, further, is invalidated by errors of circumstance, as is shown by Mr. Cumnock's letter. He and Mr. Sears did not go to Andover "in the fall," but in the following March; they did not see the Andover team, but only three members of it. It is probable that the Messrs. Mowry, whom we believe to be honorable men, have accepted vague rumors running through the school, and have become confused as to their source. The visit of Messrs. Sears and Cumnock was made, not of course to extend offers of financial aid, but to present the legitimate attractions...
...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...