Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About five thousand people saw the final struggle for the foot-ball championship. It had rained hard all right, and all day up to the time of game had drizzled so that the field was slippery and in places covered with water...
...record of our foot-ball team is given below...
...close and interesting game of foot-ball was played at Medford between a picked eleven from Harvard and a team composed of Technology and Tufts men. Score, 16 to 0 in favor of Harvard. Mr. Rand, '88, gave entire satisfaction as referee...
...game at Philadelphia resulted in a score which proves that if the Harvard eleven is a raw one it is learning to play foot-ball with determination and skill. Although the circumstances of the game might have been more favorable the success is one which to say the least is satisfactory. Another year's training will without doubt put Harvard again at the front in foot-ball...
...colors. Silent at first, apparently acquiescing in the decision of the convention, she now at the eleventh hour declares her intention of playing the game on paper and so to claim the championship. For the past three years she has by her peristent nonsense, destroyed the harmony of the foot-ball league. Patience is exhasted and the time has come when her selfish spirit should be so effectually chained that the college world may no longer be disgraced by such disgruntled hoggishness as it has been compelled to witness in this football question...