Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true that ours is a poor ground. On the contrary, it is one of the best grounds in the country. It is level, as the Yale ground is not. Our team last year did not whine about the Yale ground, through every foot-ball player who was present knows the objections which might have been made...
Besides, such articles are always made, as everybody outside of Yale admits, with some slight underlying reference to College Trustees and Faculties. Yale may "boss" her Faculty: other colleges have not yet got quite so far, as witness the entire suspension of Inter collegiate foot-ball at Harvard last year. In view of Yale's course last year and this year, to indict us for failure in an impossible effort to induce our Trustees and Faculty to gratify Yale in the revival of a rule in whose suspension Yale herself acquiesced willingly enough last year, is just a little...
...work of the eleven on Saturday was very gratifying to all who are interested in Harvard foot-ball. Here we had an eleven composed of new and inexperienced men, men who have played but this year and who had no traditions to help them: yet they went on the field against what Yale believed to be as strong an eleven as she has ever had, and never breaking, played, a first class scientific, up-hill game. They had little time to get into shape and were not as well up in some of the refinements of the game as Yale...
...CRIMSON foot-ball eleven is open to challenges from scrub-elevens. All challenges are to be sent to W. D. Bancroft, Capt. and manager...
...Yale-Princeton games. In the first one, the game was never finished, but it was anybody's game all the way through, while last year's game resulted in a well-earned victory for Princeton. These two games, and the experience of every one at all skilled in foot-ball, teaches that the main thing is to go into a game with confidence in your power to win, and not to let that confidence get knocked...