Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present there are scarcely more candidates than there are places to be filled. Eighty-nine should wake up and furnish a dozen or so more men to learn this attractive game and thus properly strengthen the twelve, and also furnish useful training for men who wish to play foot-ball in the autumn. Lacrosse and foot ball go hand in hand in the style of play and faculties called into use. If Harvard men realized this and made the players of one game work into the other, as they do at Princeton, thus keeping their good men always active...
...estimated that the cost for the Greek play, to be given by students of the University of Pennsylvania will foot up at least...
...foot-ball a very good showing was made a year ago last fall, as Harvard men can testify to, and it is probable that improvement will be made in this direction, as a regular trainer and coach has lately been procured for the eleven...
...this, and his instruction and supervision is doing much for the athletic men. Next year regular gymnasium work will be prescribed by the college, and much curiosity is felt to know the outcome of this innovation. The present gymnasium, though good, is merely temporary, as a plan is on foot to build a new and expensive one, which will rival the Hemenway; the ground has been chosen, and work will be begun as soon as the necessary funds are raised...
Junius S. Morgan, of London, has given to Trinity College the necessary amount of money for a gymnasium. He has also given $10,000 additional to cover the cost of building an annex for practice in base-ball, foot-ball, and tennis throughout the winter months...