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...Fisher '12, head coach of the University football team from 1919 to 1925, made the following statement to the Crimson last night in regard to the article published in the current number of Liberty Magazine by W. D. Hubbard '22, tackle on the undefeated 1919 and 1920 eleven charging Princeton with playing "dirty" football...
...with deepest regret that I learned of the publication of the Hubbard article. The only comforting thought which both Harvard and Princeton men got out of the discontinuance of athletic relations was the assurance that at least it would end the recriminations which had unfortunately crept into the relations of the two universities. Now it seems even that result is to be denied...
Wynant D. Hubbard must be credited with an honest desire to get at the root of the Princeton-Harvard break by publishing his article in Liberty, accusing Princeton football teams of "dirty" tactics. He says, "I am writing this article with the sincere belief that it may help to clear the football air...that relations between Harvard and Princeton may eventually be resumed." It is highly unfortunate that such good intentions have been so unintelligently acted upon...
...Hubbard cites ten specific cases of injury, but he does not and necessarily cannot prove that they were the result of "dirty" football. Already denials have appeared from men like Treat of Princeton whose opinion is as reliable as Hubbard's. 'There will undoubtedly be more such denials and counter-denials, and the good intentions of Harvard's former tackle will be submerged in a flood of angry publicity which will lead nowhere. "Dirty" football cannot be proved by individual opinion and accusation, by slow movies, or any other such method, because there is always another, and equally good side...
...only does Hubbard's article defeat its own avowed purpose, but the manner of its doing aggravates the public spectacle element in intercollegiate football and particularly in Princeton-Harvard football. If Hubbard had anything to say, and wanted to say it publicly, why did he not go to the Harvard Graduates Magazine or the Alumni Bulletin? If he wanted to clear the air between Harvard and Princeton, and settle once and for all the Princeton "dirty" football why did he not write for a Harvard-Princeton audience instead of going to a popular, sensational weekly whose circulation is largely among...