The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-16
'ALE'S SIDE OF THE STORY
STATEMENT GIVEN OUT TN RE- GARD TO THE FOOTBALL TANGLE.

reartily Approved by the Undergraduate
 Body-Captain Thorne Made All Proper
 0vertures for a Game-Harvard Men Gen
 orally Favor n Game, but Individual
 Wishes PrevaiI-Interesting Fact in Re-
 gard to the Yale View of the Matter.
 The Yale football management yester- ay gave out statement in regard b the football complication which has { Eisen between Yale and Harvard. The ! Management has taken this step from z he fact that several statements have been given out recently by the Harvard thletic committee The statement giv- ln out by the Yale football managers &neets with the hearty approval of the entire undergraduate body, as well as < he alumni. The Yale News yesterday 2llevoted a column editorial to the mat S CT and highly commended the stand aken. The statement is as follows: It seems important that graduates 8and undergraduates alike should be Informed of Yale's position with regard g Do football during the present season. sA statement purporting to come from the Harvard athletic committee, with 8regard to negotiations between the two Universities has been published and 58Yale is justified in no longer treating those negotiations as confidential.
 Throughout the winter and spring the Newspapers were filled with charges s3against Yale players and against it's lteam and the Yale spirit in general. From first to last no explanation or gdisclaimer of these, charges came from sany Harvard source. The attacks were so persistent and long continued, and lwere so similar to charges which had been made after games in previous years, that it was no longer possible for Yale to ignore them. One of two courses was open. Yale fully believed | that she was not to blame for the be- 5 ginning of whatever of roughness oc- icurred in the Springfield game, and she believed that there was overwhelming evidence to this effect. It was possible { for her to have replied in the news papers and, by counter charges, to have created what would undoubtedly { have been a lasting breach But her } traditional silence was adhered to, in l 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 dissauded from sending it by the ] Harvard officials. The other course was to call the Harvard captains at- tention to the charges and insist that Harvard's position with regard to them should be fully and fairly stated before football was played again. The latter course, as being the more courteous, was taken, and Captain Thornes let ter, referred to as famous" by the Harvard athletic committee, was writ ten. So much misapprehension exists with regard to that letter and 1t has so frequently been called a demand for an apology that it is well to reprint it.
 The following is a copy of the letter, which speaks for itself:
 Yale University Football Association,
 New Haven, Conn.,, May 10th, 1895, Mr Arthur H. Brewer
 Dear Sir-I regret that your illness prevented your coming to New Haven as you proposed doing in your letter of April 23rd Your visit would have given me the opportunity of informing you of Yale's position with regard to a game with Harvard next fall.
 During the last four or five months charges have been made against oul team, repeated with persistence, the original charge having come from the Harvard coach.
 We steadily refrained from compli- eating the situation by any recrimina- tions or statements except by publish ing a denial on the part of the officials of the Springfield game of the truth oi the charges which reflected not only or the Yale team but the good name of oul university. While we do not hold you or your team responsible for these ac. cusations it was in your power to have contradicted them and thus to have neutralized their serious effect not only upon us but upon the sport.
 Under these circumstances we fee that it would not be for the best in. terests of football or of the universities to run even a, chance of a repetition of Yale's experience since the Harvard game. Unless then such contradictions come from you would it not be wiser to allow the feeling thus engendered tc cool with time rather than to enter upor a contest with these recollections stil fresh in our minds?
 Should you still be unwilling to do us justice in this way we have concluded to arrange no game with you.
 Let me assure you however, that 1T case a proper contradiction of these charges is made We shall take pleas ure in arranging a game with you anC have up to this time reserved a datt in the hope that it may be brough about Other negotiations will not per init us to hold that or any other datt open later than May 22nd.
 Very truly yours,
 S. B. THORNE.
 Of this the Boston Transcript said under date of May 21, 1895: Tt shoult be stated in justice to Yale, however that the text of Captain Thorne's iettel