Sport: Hubbard of Harvard

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For the third time in three months Harvard men were humiliated. The first time was in November when a rude and ribald number of the Harvard Lampoon (funny monthly) was issued to insult Princeton (TIME, Nov. 22). The second time was when Princeton, having beaten Harvard in football "as usual," and weary of Harvard complaints, severed athletic relations. The third time was last week when a hulking onetime Harvard footballer, one Wynant D. Hubbard, 21, was discovered to have needed money badly enough to forget he was supposed to be a gentleman. Needy Mr. Hubbard had, for a sum, let Liberty (weekly) sign his name to an article charging Princeton with "dirty football." Sadly, bitterly, needy Mr. Hubbard recited instances of scratched eyes, bruised noses, dislocated wrists, twisted knees, smashed ankles, wrenched shoulders, a broken leg, all wreaked upon unoffending Harvard players by

Princetonians coached to play viciously. Needy Mr. Hubbard ascribed to Princeton certain groining tactics which even lumberjacks abhor. . . . Harvard was officially silent. Individuals confusedly lamented the breach. Princeton formally quashed needy Mr. Hubbard's charges by publishing letters from the officials who had supervised all the games needy Mr. Hubbard had pretended to know about.