Word: footed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton football management has made a statement regarding the Princeton eleven. It contains a certificate of the faculty that every member of the eleven is an undergraduate pursuing a regular course of study in the college. The full text of the statement is as follows: The Princeton university foot ball management desires to make public the following official statement in regard to the members of the eleven which played Harvard upon November 16 and will meet Yale on November 28, first, as to their college standing; second, as to their receiving pecuniary compensation...
...This year the football management have adopted the principle of discouraging personal attacks upon members of our college teams through the press. But since the Harvard Foot Ball Association has publicly based its withdrawal from the league upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players, and since the withdrawal on these grounds has been, under misapprehension, approved by members of the Harvard faculty and board of overseers, as stated in the press, we assert that we have evidence in our possession that members of the Harvard eleven were offered pecuniary inducement...
This evidence has been forwarded to the Faculty Committee on Athletics at Harvard College, together with the above statement as to the Princeton team, with the request that the Har-Foot Ball Association make a public retraction of the general charges made against the Princeton management...
GENTLEMEN-Will you kindly inform a graduate, former editor, lover of foot ball, and present reader of your paper, what ground you have for the assertion you make in your issue of the 26th inst., that "for years it (a dual league) has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties? " Has not this talk been confined to Harvard, and if so is it not worse than useless? Yale has complete control in the matter, as she is wanted by all parties. When she submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well...
...nation, so athletics fill a most important place in college life. Newspapers, whose sole object is to make money, foster this abnormal interest in athletics by giving glowing accounts of all games. The editors are even ready to have a close game of base ball or of foot ball reported, as they are well aware of the likes and dislikes of their readers. This "abnormal interest" in athletic contests brings about betting, a "sign of a low state of ideals." Betting in college is a great evil as men who cannot afford to bet are sorely tempted by the example...