Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SIRS-At one of the conventions of the Intercollegiate Football Association held in New York, Mr. Young delegate from Pennsylvania told Mr. Leeds delegate from Harvard, that he had seen a letter written by Captain Linn of the Harvard nine offering a certain man inducement to come to Harvard to play baseball. A few days later in its issue of November 16 under the heading "Harvard's Way of Doing it" the following article was published in the New York Herald. "Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 15. 1889.- Another instance of the prevalent and pernicious system of "ringing in" outsiders came...
DEAR SIR-I enclose with this a clipping from the New York Herald of the 16th inst. and will be much obliged to you if you will deny or confirm the statement therein made that an influential member of the Harvard nine endeavored to get you to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard...
...last issue of the Red and Blue, published at the University of Pennsylvania, has a two column letter from Harvard...
From New York there are 785 students, Pennsylvania sends 87, Ohio 72, Illinois 52, New England, 74, Canada 23, Japan 10. Thirty-eight states and territories are represented, and fourteen foreign countries...
Seven of last year's Cornell crew, which defeated the crews of Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, together with the coxswain and substitutes are back at college this year...