The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-07
HARVARD SEWERS RING RELATIONS WITH YALE BOYS.
First Athletic Break in More Than 40 years; 'E ''NO UnfriendIlness"
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 Cambridge, Mas, May T-(UP)-S HagVard-- frankly exaspeFated - broke Of varsity boxing relations with Yale today, on the grounds that fl the Elis don't know when their pugilists are licked there's no sense in fighting them.
 The Harvard Athletic committee dropped Yale from the i936-37 box ing schedule after two separate tgibunals-the national collegiate athletic association, and the Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing association- upheld the contention that the hitherto unbeaten Crimson rnittmen suffered when held to Q 4-4 draw ct Yale two months ago.
 Broke Of In 1884
 The break is the first between the traditional foes since 1894, when all Harvard-Yale athletic rivalries were declared oil following Q bruis- ing football game. At that time the two institutions suspended football relations two years and other sports single year.
 The New Haven decision"- called by Harvard partisans-is at the root of the rather startling though not totally unexpected break in ring relations.
 Points System
 1y this method-referred to as the "accumulative points" system Yale allegedly managed to have its Mr. Ellis declared the victor ovet Dwight Loomis of Harvard in the 146-pound bout, despite that the judges split their votes and the ref- cree voted draw" Similarly, the Aarvards say, Yale succeeded in having its Hustin Hoffman declared the winner over Peter Olney in the 1S6 pound class, though the referee and one judge voted for the liar. ward man.
 The upshot of 1t was that Yale got . A draw, a moral victory as 1t were, over the unbeaten Cam bridge collegians.
 Harvard placed its case before the National Collegiate A. A. rules committee, which voted unanimous ly that Harvard should have won the match s 1-2 to 2 1.2. The East ern Intercollegiate Boxing associa- ton ruled similarly, also by unani- nous vote. Armed with this aTn- mIlnition, Director of Athletics William J. (BilD Bingham of Har- vaGd conferred on at least three occasions with Athletics Director Malcolm Farmer of Yale, demand ing that Yale concede 8 Harvard victory. Yale held fast, with the result that the Harvard minor sports schedule for 1936.3T pulp lished today bears the terse re- mark:
 Tn the case of the boxing team, there will not be match with Yale"
 StuAent Paper "HOt"
 Harvard's action IS defended stOutly in today's issue of the Crim- son, Undergraduate Daily, which says that Harvard is just one of a growing list of colleges boycotting Yale in the arena of boxing.
 "If the unfortunate disagreement was isolated among long series of pleasantly conducted Yale match" says the Crimson, "the action of the athletic committee might be called unduly harsh. But the fact that Army, Navy, New Hampshire and Coast Guard have, one by one. for reasons specified and varied finally placed Yale upon the black list indicates that there ts some- thing radically wrong in the Eli boxing setup."
 A Harvard spokesman said: "It's more of disagreement on one par. tacular branch Of sports activity rather than any serious severance. It goes without saying that there is no unfriendliness between Har- ward and Yale"