Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that he would have no cause to complain of lack of support. Last year there were always twenty or thirty fellows who started off after the hares and there is no reason why the exercise should not be just as popular this fall as it ever was. Next to foot-ball, Hare and Hounds is the most invigorating of all the fall sports and it seems a pity that such splendid opportunities of improving one's constitution should be thrown away just for the lack of some competent lead. Won't the captain of the Mott Haven team look into...
...midst of all the enthusiasm and interest aroused by foot-ball and tennis, we would like to remind our readers that there is a game called cricket which is well worth paying a little attention to. The Harvard cricket eleven made a record for itself last spring which deserves substantial recognition, inasmuch as it won every game of the spring series. It has unfortunately become the custom here at Harvard for men rather to look down upon this excellent sport and to say with a would-be-knowing air, "Pshaw, the cricket eleven never does anything!" Even were this assertion...
...would like to call attention to the communication on the subject of cricket, which appears in another column. It seems to us that the writer's stand is well taken, his views well expressed. Why should the noble games of base-ball, foot-ball and tennis, admirable enough in their way, no boubt, why should they usurp all the available turf the whole time? Why, as our corressondent remarks, could not the cricket eleven be allowed the use of the ground on Holmes Field for at least one afternoon in the week, for matches if not more practice...
...Season tickets for foot-ball games are now at Leavitt and Peirce's. Subscribers may obtain them by paying their subscriptions there. Others who have not subscribed are earnestly requested to do so, as the team is in need of money. All subscribers to the amount of $5.00 or over are entitled to season tickets...
...Brine, 10 and 11 Harvard Row. Arrived per steamer Umbria, 1000 English Sweater Jerseys and Light; 300 Elephant-foot Balls; 200 Bath Robes, Mitts and Bath Slippers; 100 pieces English Stripe Flannels for blazer cap and pantaloons; 100 "Copper Box" Mcintoshes; 1 case English and Scotch Cheviots. A full line Hixon's English Tennis Shoes. Headquarters for Tennis, Gymnasium and Foot-ball Uniforms. We have constantly on hand a full line gents' furnishings, with E. and W. Collars and Cuffs. Agents for Troy Laundry. J. W. Brine, 10 and 11 Harvard...