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...Upton's letter was not sent us by Mr. Miller, as requested, and that a statement in regard to the Spalding team which Mr. Miller intended to enclose in his second letter was also omitted. But a sufficient explanation of the matter is found in two letters printed herewith, one from Mr. Dean and the other from Mr. Spalding. We certainly think it undesirable that gentlemen should engage in sports on such terms; butin view of the fact that members of this exhibition baseball team came also from Yale and Princeton, we see no ground for special condemnation...
...have accepted such pecuniary advantages. But in other cases it has included the acceptance of money for playing particular games, the acceptance of a salary for teaching athletics, and the practice of athletics for a livelihood. According to the invariable practice of amateur organizations in England and America, any one of the three acts last named debars the person concerned from further participation in amateur sports...
...rules aimed at their suppression, which were proposed in the convention held on Nov. 4. She alone voted against them, and the captain of her team is reported by the delegate of the Yale team to have said as he left the convention, that their adoption would disqualify one half of the Princeton team...
...Princeton player, who was challenged under them as ineligible to play, took refuge in a technicality at the meeting held Nov. 14, and refused to answer any questions, and Yale and Harvard were outvoted by Princeton and the smaller colleges. The Harvard Football Association then felt that only one course was open to it, namely-to withdraw from the present League, and to frame rules which should suppress present objectionable practices, and should govern the constitution of its own team hereafter. This course left open for future consideration the question of forming a new league...
...have never had any pecuniary profit from their sport; and we heartily approve the new rules (subjoined), which have lately been unanimously adopted by the Harvard Football and Baseball Associations, and have been sent to us with the request that they receive our sanction. They provide that no one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public athletic contest, who is not a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year's work, and who is not in a strict sense an amateur. They will hereafter govern the constitution of all teams in this College, whatever...