Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ever been made to me by Captain Sears, Captain Cumnock, or any other person, either before entering college or since. Last summer, on the invitation of several Princeton men, I went to Cape May and played on a baseball team. There were seven Princeton men and one University of Pennsylvania man, besides myself. We all received our board and an allowance for incidental expenses, but were not paid for our services. I never have received money for engaging in athletics...
...inference is strengthened in the one case by the engrossing nature of the duties of an instructor in a large preparatory school; and in the other by the fact that the gentleman referred to is said on trustworthy authority to have entered the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in the autumn of 1888 for the purpose of becoming a member of the Eleven, and to have left it as soon as the football season was over. It is further strengthened by the following admission of Captain Poe, published in the New York Evening Post, of November...
...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...
DEAR SIR.- In the New York Herald of the date of November the 15th there was a despatch from Philadelphia to the effect that Mr. Ammerman, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, had been approached by a prominent member of the Harvard nine and had been offered inducements to come to Harvard. In reply to your question concerning the article I wish to say that I have not made and no one has been authorized by me to make any offer whatsoever to Mr. Ammerman or to anybody else, Yours very truly, PHILIP B, LINN, Capt...
Courtney has been engaged to coach the Cornell crew again this year. He will take charge of the men in January. Special efforts will be made to produce a winning freshman crew, as it is expected that races will be rowed with Yale, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. The 'Varsity crew hopes to induce Yale to reconsider her refusal to row Cornell, and it is also rumored that a challenge will be sent to Harvard...