Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON foot-ball game will take place to-morrow afternoon...
...Foot-ball by electric light is the latest innovation in athletics in Canada and meets with great popular favor. Princetonian...
Poor old Harvard! Princeton whitewashed her foot-ball team, and now the same team has been defeated by Yale by a score of 29 to 4. If this sort of thing keeps up, Harvard's eminence as an educational power will be gone and she will be obliged to hang several yards of crape on her front door. - Baltimore American...
...game twenty minutes before the full time had expired took away many chances, and perhaps a deciding touchdown. It would be difficult for an impartial judge to decide which team played the better game during the first three-quarters, and the second half of the game was not foot-ball, but simply twenty-two men skating about on Jersey mud in the darkness. And yet on the other hand Yale made a larger score throughout the fall than Princeton, and has beaten her opponents each time more easily. It therefore seems somewhat unfair to make absolutely no distinction between...
...strong team, and the game they played on Saturday was very creditable, resulting as it did in the first victory that a Harvard freshman team has won from Yale for ten years. A game like this destroys Yale's prestige, as being invincible by Harvard at foot-ball. We may now confidently assume that a new era has set in, and that next year's freshman team, aided as it will be by practice against what will be a more experienced and consequently a better University eleven, may follow the good example that ninety has set in regard...