Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Globe of Nov. 14 stated that the citizens of Lawrence and Andover, Mass., will offer a silver gold-lined cup, to be competed for by the foot-ball teams of Phillips Andover and Exeter Academies...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.: - Will you kindly enlighten me on the following points? 1, Is a freshman team at Harvard supposed to keep training? If so, were the members of our present freshman foot-ball team who were at a certain ball in Boston on Monday night, drinking, there and elsewhere, until five o'clock in the morning, guilty of a dishonorable act towards their team, their class, and their college? 2, As Yale always plays her dropped men, why have not the dropped '89 players (who are undoubtedly better than most of the freshmen), been playing on the freshman team...
...foot-ball world has been subject to a prolonged quarrel between Yale and Princeton which is not only very tiresome in itself but more than that is entirely unnecessary. Two years ago the game played in New York resulted in a draw which caused a violent discussion between the college papers of Yale and Princeton. This left the question in such a tangled shape that it is presumptuous for any one to express an opinion of the championship of that year. Twelve months ago, the Princeton Faculty forbade the Princeton eleven to play in New York. The Constitution...
...Harvard man, but this last escapade is by far the most disgusting of all. On Saturday, it is expected to play the game with Yale. Rather than have such catastrophe occur the eleven had better be suppressed at once. The 'varsity team, on its return to the inter-collegiate foot-ball arena, has made an round which we can all view with pride and satisfaction, but the freshman have done nothing but bring dishonor upon their class and their college...
...Yale there can but little be said. We can only hope that those men who entered with '89 and who are now catalogued with '90 will have the manhood to step forward and do what they can to save the college from bearing the burden of any more freshman foot-ball antics...