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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOCUMENTS | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...have received from the President and Treasurer of the Princeton University Foot-Ball Association an "official statement" dated Nov. 27, 1889, in regard to the members of the Princeton and Harvard eleven for the present year. This statement contains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S REPLY. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...evidence that a number of the Harvard Eleven were offered pecuniary inducements to enter College to play football, and are at present beneficiaries of the college funds." A "portion" of this evidence was enclose to us, but was not published by the officers of the Princeton Association with the statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S REPLY. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...need not further specify the contents of the "official statement," since the whole appeared in the public prints some days before we received it, and has been the subject of much public discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S REPLY. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

Under ordinary circumstances any statement of the officials of the Princeton Football Association in regard to the constitution of their team would have been transmitted by us to the officers of the Harvard Association, with the request that they make answer. But since the communication of the Princeton Association contains grave public charges against one of the athletic organizations over which this Committee has supervision, we have undertaken to examine the evidence transmitted to us and also such other evidence as we could discover. This letter, which we beg leave to address to you, states the result of our investigations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S REPLY. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

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