Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harper's Weekly has a brief article on the foot-ball question. In speaking of the Yale-Princeton game, it says: "The annual encounter of the elevens of these two colleges seems to be looked to as affording "the pace" at which college foot-ball shall be carried on. Their last match at New Haven was universally commended as an uninterrupted and gentleman-like pursuit of the game proper, unattended by private fisticuffs or wrestling bouts of a brilliant but extra and unnecessary kind, and it was perhaps very greatly in consequence of the quality of this match that...
...Chicago young lady was looking at three large photographs representing the foot-ball teams of Yale, Princeton and Harvard, for the year 1885. Her father was a Harvard man, her fiance was a Princeton man; and her fiance's father was a Yale man. After scrutinizing each picture critically, she gave as her conviction that the Princeton men were the handsomest, the Harvard men the most distinguished, and the Yale men the most enduring...
...foot-ball captain for next year will be chosen to-day by ballot, at Captain Kimball's room...
...FOOT-BALL. Those entitled to vote are reminded that the election of a foot-ball captain for 1886 takes place to-day from 2 to 4 p.m. in 5 Little's. It is hoped that men will attend this election as well as they attended the election held last Monday...
...meeting held for the election of a foot-ball captain there were six candidates; and, as a consequence, there was no majority obtained. But as three of these candidates have since withdrawn there will probably be no difficulty at the next election. This will be held under the same conditions, in the same place, Thursday, Jan. 14, from 2 until 4 in the afternoon. It is hoped that men will come up as well as they did at this election...