HARVARD AND PRINCETON
PRINCETON (N.J.), Nov. 18, The chairman of the Board of Athletic, Control, of. Princeton University an-' pounces that all athletic relations between, Pmicotou .and Harvard are' severed as. front to-Jay. This drastic step will have-the effect-of'.breaking up tho “Big Tihppo” in Um .American world of sport, namely, Harvard, .Yale, auu Princeton, • The trouble between tho two universities began this year, when Harvard -suggested the omission of Princeton from tho list of football fixtures in favor of tlm University of Michigan.- 111-feeling reached, the culminating point last. (Saturday, when througs of Friueeton .undergradwtuteii who attended the HarvardPi'inepton match utUambridge, in which Ifaiwaa'd were beaten 12—0, were greeted with a- special issue of the Lampoon, a paper published, by the undergraduates of Harvard. Tho Lampoon contained tlm most offensive and insulting jests at the expense of Princeton, and was severely criticised in many American papers u s contrary to all canons of sport and good taste. ■ ■ w- (
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 12
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