Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tufts Foot-ball Association are in debt $100; each member of the college will be assessed a fixed amount...
Prof. Johnston, in his address, said that an impression had gone abroad that foot ball and base base were the principal studies at Princeton, but that was due to the fact that the college was able, with a small number of undergrades, to send out teams which held their own with colleges of more numerous students. He thought there was too much attention paid to athletics by the first term freshmen, as it often caused their failure to pass examination at the end of the term. He favored giving them another examination before the beginning of the second term...
Yesterday's Boston Herald contained a flat denial of the accusation that Princeton was guilty of "jockeying" in the last Princeton-Yale foot-ball game, The denial is made by F. S. Spaulding, managing editor of the Princetonian how completely refutes the statement that Harris was "hidden" by Princeten in order to get Moffat to referee the game...
...firm of J. Bergmann & Brothers of Troy, are about to build for the Yale University crew a new paper shell, to combine all the advantages of shells hitherto used, without disadvantages. It is 65 feet by 25 inches, one foot longer and one inch wider than the shell used in last year's race. This shell is to be tested by the Yale crew and is sent by the manufacturers merely as an experiment...
...Dramatic Association, which has shown such untiring zeal and energy the past few years, will hold its trials for the well-know comedy, "Our Boys," by Mr. H. J. Byron. All the parts are open and a vigorous competition is anticipated. There is also a movement on foot to get up a minstrel entertainment. There is good material in college for such an undertaking; the scheme has been suggested in the past but always fell through for lack of a leading man to rush it to completion...