Another slap was given to the perpetrators of the ill-timed questionnaire on the truth of statements made by W. O. McGeehan, sports writer, and the CRIMSON on the question of football versus academic prestige, by T. A. D. Jones, head coach of the Yale eleven. Coach Jones, who received one of the few postcards that escaped suppression, refused to vote. He did not indicate his belief in McGeehan's declaration that Harvard was ready to swap two presidents and three department heads for a good backfield; and he did not show agreement with the CRIMSON's statement that the University would not exchange one item of its academic prestige for the greatest eleven in history. The Yale mentor merely wrote: "You are only making Harvard and the game of football ridiculous."
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