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Word: footing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Acting, reading, and playing foot-ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PRESSING INVITATION. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...rates of exchange on New Haven have fallen heavily in anticipation of the foot-ball contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...foot-ball match with Yale will take place to-morrow in New Haven, at two o'clock. The Fifteen is made up as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...late successes on the foot-ball field, together with the near prospect of a game with Yale, has awakened a lively interest in foot-ball throughout the College. It is well known that Harvard declined to join the Association of Colleges, owing to the radical difference of our rules from those of the various other colleges. Though in so doing we laid ourselves open to criticism, yet an impartial observer must assent on consideration to the expediency of our decision. We did not in the least assert that our rules were the best; nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...what can I do about it? I don't row and play base nor foot ball. I can't sport athletically, and I do subscribe every now and then; but I 've overrun my allowance now, and have n't paid my 'man in London' for a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD PLUCK." | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

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