Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Society will have in stock through the season lacrosse sticks and balls, tennis nets, rackets, balls and shoes, foot-balls, base-balls, etc. Gymnasium outfits and tennis jerseys in stock, or made to order. A new thing in a cotton athletic shirt. Full dress shirts for immediate wear. The new shapes in collars. Evening and street gloves. White and fancy shirts and night-shirts made to order and fit guaranteed...
...Foot-Ball Association...
...four organizations, the base-ball, foot-ball and athletic associations and the boat club, refuse to accept this plan, the plan does not go into effect for any organization...
...Harvard Navy management are aware of the advantage that the Freshman race affords the boating interests of the University in different ways; and why should not Yale enjoy the same advantage? Besides the freshman classes of the two universities meet on the foot-ball field in the fall, and in the spring on the diamond, and it is only natural that the two crews should carry out this system on the water. The exclusion of our freshmen from the New London race will not check the importance that is now attached to this crew, as they have already under advisement...
...satisfactory results attained and the friendly feeling displayed at the foot-ball convention last Saturday cannot help but be gratifying to all the colleges represented. It was a very agreeable surprise to us that nothing was said about the withdrawal of Princeton and Harvard from the present association, and inviting Yale to join them in the formation of a new triangular league. Yale was very much opposed to such a league, as there are no apparent advantages that would result, and the disadvantages are manifold...