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...statement issued yesterday on the charges in the article in Liberty by W. D. Hubbard '22, J. J. Maher '26 former Crimson football star and a member of the Athletic Advisory Board, stated that "graduates of both institutions are getting steamed up over something they know nothing at all about." Maher was one of the undergraduate members of the Harvard Athletic Committee from 1923 until 1925, and is at present coach at Choate School...
...Hubbard mentioned in his charges that Princeton players dislocated Maher's wrist in the 1922 Harvard-Princeton Freshman game. Maher refused to either affirm or deny the act yesterday...
...Hubbard was in Africa when the purforted roughness happened, which alone proves that he is unqualified to comment on such matters. I believe the only statements on this matter should come direct from W. J. Bingham '16, at Harvard," Maher said...
...charges against Princeton of "dirty" football made against the teams from 1919 to 1926 inclusive by Wynant D. Hubbard is not only that Harvard players were injured by rough play in violation of the rules, but also that it was the deliberate policy of Princeton coaching to cripple "pivotal" players. The former Harvard tackle posts Princeton as guilty of "dirty" foot ball in two games in which he took part. He makes ten "accusations" against the Princeton "football system." In most of them he names Harvard players who, he says, had a leg broken, or knees "badly twisted...
William J. Bingham, director of athletics at Harvard, had nothing to say, and Major F. W. Moore, Treasurer of the Athletic Association was silent. No Harvard men gave any support to Hubbard's charges. But the judges and referees who officiated at the games were soon heard from. W. R. Okeson of Lehigh, referee and field judge, testifies that the games "were just good, clean contests between a lot of fine, decent boys coached by gentlemen sportsmen." W. G. Crowell, umpire and referee, described them in almost exactly the same language and said that violations of the rules were...