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Upon being questloned last night by representatives of the press as to the statement of Manager Foote of Yale in yesterday's Yale News which was published in the evening papers, Professor Ames said...
...statement in the Yale News contains several inaccuracies and is generally calculated to give an erroneous impression of Harvard's position. That position was fully explained to Mr. Adee in a casual meeting on June 18, to Mr. Cowles who came to Castine Aug. 29, for the purpose of learning Harvard's attitude, and to Mr. Stewart who came to Cambridge Oct. 1, to lay a statement before the Harvard Athletic Committee. Harvard has at all times throughout the present controversy, up to, and including Oct. 5, been ready to let bygones be by gones and to accept an invitation...
...following statement of Yale's position in the Harvard football controversy appeared yesterday in the Yale News. Coming as it does from the head of the graduate and undergraduate interests, and signed by Manager Foote, the document has a peculiar value to the universities. Yale makes the public statement purely in defence of her position in regard to the Springfield game...
...seems important that graduates and undergraduates alike should be informed of Yale's position with regard to football during the present season. A statement purporting to come from the Harvard Athletic Committee with regard to negotiations between the two universities has been published, and Yale is justified no longer in treating these negotiations as confidential. Throughout the winter and spring the newspapers were filled with charges against the Yale players and against its team and against the Yale spirit in general. From first to last no explanation or disclaimer of these charges came from any Harvard source...
...impossible for her to have replied in newspapers and, by counter charges, to have created what would undoubtedly have been a lasting breach. But her traditional silence was adhered to, in the belief, persisted in for months, that the charges would die out and that some form of statement would relieve her from the necessity for taking any action. It is an open secret that such a statement as was desired was written by the Harvard captain and that he was dissuaded from sending it by the Harvard officials. The other course was to call the Harvard captain's attention...