The Chairman of the Board of Athletic Control of Princeton University announces that all athletic relations between Princeton and Harvard have been severed: from to-day.
This drastic step will have the effect of breaking up the "Big Three" of the American sporting world, namely, Harvard, Yal Princeton, which have ' dominated football, baseball and athletics in America for 40 years.
The trouble began this year when Harvard suggested the omission of Princeton from the list of football favour of the University ill-feeling culminated last Saturday when throngs of Princeton undergraduates Massachusetts, in which Harvard were beaten by 12-0, were greeted with a special issue of the "Lam-oon," the paper published by the undergraduates of Harvard, containing the most insulting jests at the expense of Princeton, Many of the American papers severely criticized the "Lampoon" as contrary to all canons of sport and good taste.—Reuter.
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