Word: footing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MOVEMENT is on foot to establish a chess club in the College...
...have some one to put the men in training immediately; then, as soon after the Christmas recess as is deemed advisable, let the candidates for the various positions choose, with the advice of the University captains, their own officers. In the case of the captain of the foot-ball team this plan does not apply so well as to the others, but it might be modified so as to meet the exigency. As to the remaining officers, it makes no difference who fill the positions of president and secretary, because those offices are mere empty honors. If, then, the members...
WHAT has been said of our athletic interests in general, applies most immediately to our foot-ball team. We unfortunately had an instance last year of a case where, with plenty of very good material on hand, no proportionately good result was obtained. We also learned that the success of eleven or fifteen men depends upon their unanimity in playing, and this, in turn, depends on the constant practice of all the members of the team. To have four or five good individual players who belong to other departments of the University, and who cannot do the same amount...
...departure of '79 will be felt in no way more seriously than in our athletics. A class which can furnish not only the backbone of the 'Varsity, but the best class-crew besides; which has seven members on the foot-ball team; and whose representatives on the Nine are the last that can be said to have profited by the good training of former years, - not to mention the champion single-sculler and several prominent athletes, - this class cannot depart without leaving a large vacancy behind it. Now, however, while the College is still fresh with the memory of these...
...What is this band of men who come charging down the Yard, leaping over the heads of the crowd, and brandishing aloft curiously shaped sticks? "The Lacrosse Club!" shouts the assembled multitude. Before the words are out of their mouths the players have already stationed themselves, some at the foot of the ladder, others distributed along...