CARNEGIE ON FOOTBALL
WALLOWING IN THE DIRT NOT
GENTLEMANLY. ■• United Press Association — By Electrio Telegraph — Copyright. (Received December 7, 6.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 6. Mr Andrew Carnegie, in presenting the University of Princeton with an artificial lake, three and a half miles long and from 400 ft to 1000 ft wide, compared football disadvantageously with aquatic sports, and declared that the spectacle of educated youths rolling over one another in the dirt was not gentlemanly. The undergraduates expressed dissent.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8797, 7 December 1906, Page 2
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