New-York tribune., 1889-12-20
HARVARD TO PRINCETON.
:ur FOOTBALL CONTROVERSY REVIVED BY
THE ATHLETIC COMMITTEE.
n,xc By THE CRIMSON ooLoRs AND BRING
,xe OUT NEW POINTS AGAINST PRINCE
TONS PLAYERS.

TONS PLAYERS.
nec 10 (Spccial,.-Thc Athletic Committee
,Sr,ard University, has at last spoken ont IN reply
" " .na charges made against some Of Harvards loot
% Non and explains Harvards position In the
t"n =, controversy The committee presents the
Wis Of its investigation in pamphlet OF eighteen
N and finds that il scan discover no trace OF
r n.,ment or offer Of money TO any person to
'' rnon the Harvard teams this year." The
p,y p.,.,e committee is composed of Professor John
ss,,aos White chairman William +. Byerly and Al
W.. pnshpell Hart, of the faculty. Henry p Walcott'
". william Hooper, go, and George b. Morrison,
% =, the graduates and d. r. Tilton. 90; s. V. II.
10y ol and Neal Rantoul, '02. OF the under
s.,es The committee says that 1t received an
.Trla statement from the president and treasurer
!, ,hs Princeton University Football Association,
80 November c7 1889, in regard TO the members
= he Princeton and Harvard elevcns for the present
- The statement purported to show that
y, mcmbere OF the Princeton team
..,e bona fde students; that no member OF the
..m was beneficiary OF the cohese'
:. had benefited in any pecunary or business way
=, helonging TO the team; that there was "eVidehce
,s., a number of the Harvard team were offered
.suniary inducements 10 enter college to play foot
m and last a request that the Harvard Football
.socist,on make a public retraction of the general
,s.r.es made against Princeton. To this the Harvard
ards association do not doubt that the members OF
che Princeton team are duly registered students in
p-ineeton College University. But, instead OF
ablIshng this uncontested fact the Princeton asso
,.tou should have explained why Cash entered col
lee so late and George returned so late in the year.
Tho natural inference is that they were brought to
ppoe,on 10 play football Captain Poe too, is quoted
,s having said TO a reporter for New-York newspa-
rsr that Princeton did not deny that Wagenhursts
reason for returning TO a post graduate course, was
"a play football The committee says that there was
similar case at Hartford last that is. the COM
uitiee lodged protest against five candidates Tor the
,.yea and four were not permitted to play.
Referring 10 the question Of beneficiary aid TO
Princeton players, the committee says that 1t is not
aware that the receipt of beneficiary aid earned oy
eood scholarship has anywhere been held to render
the recipient ineligible for membership of crew,
nine or an eleven II would be to the point to
pent evidence in refutation of the widespread cpn
Ion that three of the Princeton men, two of whom
payed against Harvard and YALE are professionals
Ames currently reported to have received specific
sums Of money for his services on baseball
teams in Chicago. The Harvard delegate
At the meeting Of the Graduate Advisory
Committee on November Ia, wanted TO nave the true
facts made known. The Princeton delegate OBJECTED
on a point of Order and investigation was stopped
A second member of the team George, has been slhco
The beginning of the year, and is now, salarled
teacher of field sports and other subjects in prepara
tory school, In regard to Wagenhurst, once member
Of the New-York baseball club. the committee says
that when the Graduate Advisory Committee passed
rule prohibiting professional athletes from taking part
IN the associations games. the Princeton delegate
alone voted against the passage of the rule.
Taking up the statements Of the Princeton associa-
ton that no member of the eleven has received any
pecuniary compensation. nor has any MEMBER OF inc
team benefited by any business arrangement at Prince
ton the Harvard committee says that this can hardly
rpresent the nvariabe attitude of the Princeton Foot
ball Association. The committee has seen letter
h0m Ames 10 II. O. suckney, Oh tie HarNdru 'edn III
which Ames writes
will tell you plainly / will do all can for you in
every way can get your board, tuition, etc.
ive The athletic men at Princeton get by all odds the
vt treatment in any Of the colleges.
s;ickney had written this 20 Ames
have been thinking Of late of going 10 Princeton to
,olere l am now tutoring at Cambridge with the idea
OF entering Harvard Cumnock thinks that am going
year, but they don't seem TO want 70
Do much for me. Now have to help wherever go.
saw Bruny willard the other day, and he wanted me
10 write you he thinks p. is the place to 90. have
played fast foot , ball at Exeter
The committee understands that this young man
similarly approached the Yale management. As TO
the stories that the Harvard faculty conferred scholar
ships attract athletes, the committee considers ii
onB necessary say that all scholarships in Harvard
University conferred by special votes Of faculty
or OF the Academic Council, only on the grounds Of
good scholarship and need, and confirmed by vote
o. The corporation. Captain Cumnock, Upton and
Dennson positively deny that they offered induce
ments TO members of the AndOver team to come to
Harvard In regard to the case of zimmerman, the
committee saws that il is difficult to weigh the value
Of his statement because he declines TO give any ad
di;lona information. Captain Linn, of the nine, says
that no one has been authorized 10 make any offer
whatsoever TO- Mr.. zimmerman, or TO anybody else.-
The faculty. the students and graduates OF Harvard
condemn such offers. In closing the report says That
Tie Harvard Football Association has not publicly
based its withdrawal from tie League upon the charge
that Princeton defeated Harvard with team partly
composed OF paid and irregular players" 1t made no
charges against the Princeton management; Inc
withdrawal of Harvard due TO the fact that the
Intense competition within the League had led TO
Objectionable practices IN all the colleges, which, "a
proved at the meetings held in New-Iork Guy on
November and u. Princeton could not be brought 10
absndOn by amicabe agreement. Experience seemed
show that Princeton, perhaps because Of her smaller
igmbcrs prone TO these Objectionable prac-
tees than Harvard Yale she is on record as nav
ins opposed the passage of the rules proposed for
their suppression.