Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday's practice gave the first indications of what the future of Harvard foot-ball would be. There is material enough, that is evident. There is enthusiasm enough. The captain is able and energetic. But all these accessory attributes to a good foot-ball team are as nothing when compared to the one quality which has always been distinguished by its absence from our teams - skill. Our men play a good game after their own light; - that is, they let centre snap the ball to the quarter-back, and quarter-back throw it to a half-back, and then...
...exercises of the undergraduate day of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary will be as follows: In the morning, literary exercises in Sanders Theatre, followed by the scratch races; in the afternoon, a university championship foot-ball game (arrangements not yet perfected); in the evening, a grand torchlight procession, illustrating the history of the university, followed by an illumination of the yard and a countermarch of the procession. The student anniversary committee gave the charge of the literary exercises into the hands of the two literary societies, the O. K. and the Signet. The order of exercises was determined upon...
...long series of successes which we have to record. Let us with due modesty recall them. The CRIMSON to-day holds the inter-press tug-of-war championship, won in '83, the championship in the oared scratch race, (Oct. 11, 1884), and the championship of the inter-press foot ball elevens, (Nov. 10, 1885). The CRIMSON nine of '85 paralled the record of the great 'varsity nine, losing not even an exhibition game. Yesterday for the second time, the representatives of the CRIMSON won the amateur base-ball championship of the university and captured the cups offered by the management...
...Yale University foot-ball team has presented foot-balls to all candidates for the team. They will be in constant practice during the summer...
Several of the candidates for the 'varsity foot-ball eleven next fall intend to practice passing and kicking during the summer...