Word: footing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MORROW the long-mooted question in regard to supremacy on the Foot-Ball field between Yale and Harvard will be decided. Don't fail to attend; admission only fifty cents. Game begins at 2.30; Boston grounds...
...very unfortunate that the weather this week has prevented foot-ball practice in the field, as the result of the match with Princeton last Saturday showed the weak points in our team, and proved decidedly that men cannot play well together in a game if they have not been faithful in their practice-work before the match. There are a great many details in passing, and tricks in dodging, which the Princeton men have mastered, and which we trust our men have now learned. The match to-morrow will be well worth seeing; and we can only hope that...
...Courant complains that some of the foot-ball team "are studiously careless about their diet, keep unseasonable hours, and indulge themselves." To judge from the boating editorial and the letter from a graduate, there seems to be a feeling of dissatisfaction at our willingness to row Cornell and Columbia. We make the following extracts from the letter...
...foot of peak, 'neath snow...
LAST Tuesday the Freshman Foot-Ball team went out to Quincy to play a match with the team of the Adams Academy. Crehore won the toss for '82, and took the wind, giving Adams the kick-off. The ball was started about 3-20 by Woodward, but was soon sent back towards Adams's goal, where most of the play took place for some time. The Quincy boys then made a brace, but Leatherbee made a good rush for '82, and in a few minutes a touch-down was scored by Warren. The ball was then brought...