Word: balle
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell in her management of football has inaugurated a plan entirely different from that pursued in the other branches of athletics. Whereas base ball, rowing, and track athletics are directly controlled by managers, elected by directors appointed by each class, football is governed entirely by a small society called the Cornell Foot Ball Association...
This association, numbering forty-eight members, was formed in 1888 for the purpose of "promoting foot ball interests in the university," and has full power in the choice and management of the team...
...primary object of the association was to establish foot ball as a permanent branch of athletics and it was to carry out this purpose that it was given the power which it has. Now that foot ball is thoroughly established, there is a feeling throughout the university that the association, has fulfilled the purpose of its organization and that football ought now to be regulated by managers as are the other teams. But this method has its disadvantages, and there is a scheme on foot to organize an association to be known as the Cornell Athletic association, which...
...said that the building now being constructed on Holmes field for the use of the athletic teams will not be finished before spring. and that the base-ball and crew men, who had expected to get their winter practice in the new structure, will be disappointed...
...Christmas number of Harper's Weekly of today's issue contains a double page cut of the Yale-Princeton foot-ball match and gives a very interest account of the game. It also contains several illustrations of the districts in the recent Boston and Lynn fires...