Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Reid
President Roosevelt encloses materials from Paul Joseph Dashiell regarding controversy during the Harvard-Yale football game, which he refereed. Roosevelt would like Harvard coach William T. Reid to show the materials to Harvard President Charles William Eliot and then return them. Roosevelt notes that each team believes that the opposing team is in the wrong. He does not want to see football abandoned, and thinks that the hysteria surrounding the sport is as bad as the brutality in the sport. He asks Reid to tell Eliot in particular that Dashiell will make a good umpire “with a little of the proper spirit behind him.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-12-14