Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan proposed in the broadest application suggested includes all the athletic, journalistic and musical organization under one general musical head, the present financial officers of these being sub-treasurers of the "University" treasury. In its narrower and more practical form, the plan would include only the base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse and track athletics...
...several weeks there has been a movement on foot to give the University Boat Club a benefit, and, if possible, remove the debt which has been hanging over it for the past few years. This benefit, for which successful preparations have at last been made, is tendered by all the athletic organizations of the university together, and is destined to show the work done in the gymnasium as well as exhibit the various class and university teams. It will be held in the gymnasium on the 27th of March, the Saturday after the last winter meeting...
...light dumbbells, the '88 crew with Indian clubs, and the '89 crew in light dumbbell drill. The champion University nine will either pass the shot or go through the bar-bell drill. In absence of a regular university eleven, the '86 team will take the floor and pass a foot-ball for a few minutes till the appearance of the champion Lacrosse team, which will give an exhibition of passing ball on lacrosse sticks. The last event on the programme will be an exhibition of Harvard's fifth champion organization, the University crew, which will row two hundred strokes...
Just caught on: "The faculty of Harvard lately pronounced against foot-ball. This, however, does not prevent the students from continuing the game." - St. John's Magazine...
Choice Chestnuts: "Lacrosse is being introduced in many universities, and will probably take the place of foot-ball at Harvard...