Word: nine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Inducements of the character mentioned, a scholarship and pecuniary compensation, a ticket to Boston, etc, were extended to me by a Harvard man early in November to enter the Law School at Harvard and become a member of the Harvard Nine and Football eleven...
...Editor of the Press: SIR-A statement recently appeared in New York and Philadelphia papers in which it was alleged that certain inducements had been extended to me by a prominent Harvard base ball official to enter the Harvard Law School and play on the Harvard base ball nine and football eleven. Though the name of Linn of the Harvard nine was not mentioned he has seen fit to deny that overtures were made by him. Under the existing circumstances, therefore, it seems desirable to state the existing hasis of the statement in the papers. Inducements of the character mentioned...
...Princeton nine will begin practicing January 4th, using the gymnasium untill the cage is completed...
...which, it should be noted was first raised by the officers of the Princeton Association-is irrelevant. We are not aware that the receipt of beneficiary aid, earned by good scholarship and good conduct, has anywhere been held to render the recipient ineligible for membership of a crew, a nine, or an eleven. It would have been much more to the point to have presented evidence in the "official statement" in refutation of the wide-spread opinion that three of the players put on the field by Princeton at the beginning of the year, two of whom played against Yale...
...should perhaps be added, in specific answer to the allegation that "a number of the Harvard Eleven are at present beneficiaries of the college funds," that only one member of the Harvard team is the recipient of beneficiary aid from the college. He holds one of the eighty-nine grants of the "Price Greenleaf Aid" for the current year, the only form of undergraduate scholarship which is granted in advance. The assignment was made by the President and Dean of the College upon the written recommendation of the teachers under whom the applicant was then studying...