Word: footing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...great bear, wandering at her will, as was her wont among the children at their play, first tasted blood, as it flowed from a child's foot pierced by a thorn...
...FOOT-BALL Association was formed, on November 23, by delegates from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton. The Rugby Union rules were adopted with the exception of rule seven, which was modified so that four touchdowns count a goal. Baker, of Yale, was elected president...
...Saturday the Freshmen played the game of foot-ball that was not played a Yale. The game took place on the Union Grounds, and our men defeated Yale by three goals and two touch-downs. The day was very cold and unfavorable, and the ground frozen hard, but both elevens played well, and made quite an interesting game...
...refuse to enter into the controversy about the foot-ball match with Yale, it is simply because it would be a waste of time and space. Our readers understand clearly enough that questions as to courtesy and gentlemanlike treatment cannot be settled by any amount of writing. They understand, also, only too well the reception which our Nines and Teams generally receive at New Haven. Yale undergraduates seem to lack the faintest idea of what hospitality is, and we have no desire to undertake the hopeless task of teaching them...
...Record devotes five columns to the recent foot-ball game. The following remarks are from one of the editorials: "But we suspect that the Harvard players, on returning to Cambridge, were most cordially reprehended, and that, to cover up the defeat if possible, it was at once resolved to bring into requisition the regulation Harvard tactics of bluster and complaint. . . . . We have the word of four of the most prominent of Harvard's players, that they had not even read over the Rugby Union rules under which the game was conducted. It was patent to any unbiassed spectator that Harvard...