Word: footing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FOOT-BALL is the favorite sport in fall, and we hope that Holmes Field will be kept in constant use, for our foot-ball team owe it to themselves and to the College to place themselves on a level with the crew and the nine. It is true that the team will suffer severely by the loss of so many good players from '77; but there seems to be no reason why, with steady practice, a team could not be formed strong enough to bring back the laurels which were lost at New Haven last year...
...REVOLUTION has been effected this term in the game of which, above all other games, Rugbeians are most conservative. A fiat has gone forth that in future all shins, unless the ball is between them, are to be inviolate. Deprived of its most distinctive feature, Rugby foot-ball exists no longer in the school that gave it its title and its birth. Of the expediency of the change we can venture no fixed opinion. It has probably been found necessary to benefit the school at the expense of the game. Of its unpopularity there can be no question; and there...
...strokes a minute, the former straining for the lead, and the latter doing steady, strong work. At first Columbia obtained a slight advantage and led by three yards at the railroad bridge; but when the lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow and steady work had brought her a foot or two ahead, and now this lead was steadily increased. Columbia struggled desperately, and hung on for another half-mile, and up to that point, a little below the first mile-flag, she gave Harvard a hard race. Here the two boats came into dangerous proximity; for a few strokes...
...would not agree to it. I said that I did n't have muslin sieves in my lungs to catch nicotine, that the fact that enough was left to color the handkerchief showed - But what was the matter with my foot? There was a stinging, burning pain on one side...
...course we laughed, but the pesky thing had burnt right into my foot, and I was as lame as a Bull of Bashan. And then I had no string to that boot, too; so, you see, we had to walk home slowly, and there was no time for flowers if we wanted to get home before dark. So there was no grubbing that...