Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a plan on foot at Yale to present a play this spring, the proceeds from which are to be given to the 'Varsity Crew. The consent of the faculty is all that is needed that the plan may be put in active operation...
...Tech is considering the advisability of issuing a phototype of the tug-of-war team, as a companion picture to the foot-ball group recently published...
...last nine years Andover has won five games of base-ball from Exeter and lost four; in foot ball, Andover has won five games and lost three...
There is not the same necessity of reform in college base-ball as there is in college foot-ball, to be sure. The rules of the game are perfectly definite and are never disputed, umpires are provided for, and there is no opportunity for quarrelling about this nor as to where a match is to be played. Then, why should Harvard ask Princeton and Yale to form a separate league? The answer is ready enough: To boom college base-ball. How could the annual Yale-Princeton foot-ball game have become the paramount athletic event, that...
...championship, and if once a league by themselves, public interest, not to say collegiate too, will concentrate on their three nines most naturally. Let this once be done and the base-ball matches between Harvard, Yale and Princeton will be what the New London race and the New York foot-ball match already are. Then and not till then college base-ball will attract greater and more exciting attention than the games of professionals...