Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News rejoices in its editorial columns at the re establishment of foot-ball here...
...Princetonian says of the position Harvard has been taking in regard to foot-ball, that "the Harvard faculty might better have allowed the Harvard undergraduates to stand by the ship, and have done Harvard's share in raising the standard of the sport, rather than to temporarily desert and leave Yale and Princeton to overcome the difficulties present and prepare everything for Harvard's safe return...
...Springfield, Mass. The great difficulty about reaching a just conclusion is the lack of sufficient trustworthy data. Startling stories are told as to the extravagant sums which are spent by rich youths at New Haven or Cambridge, and listeners at once jump to the conclusion that only millionaires can foot the bills of a student at Harvard or Yale. Even the average expenditure at sometimes figured out is deceptive and misleading, since heavy outlays by only a few will outweigh the light purses of the many. Thus the average expenses of five students may be $1,000 a year...
...many men are now rowing for the same reason that the men who tried for the eleven last year played foot-ball; that is, for the sake of the credit of being on the team and of getting the uniforms. Such motives are perfectly contemptible, and the sooner eighty-nine realizes that their captain and the people who are coaching them know more about rowing than they do, the better it will be for their prospects of winning the June race...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I wish to make a few statements in your paper concerning the election of captain of the foot-ball team for 1886. I was elected captain for the '85 team by the members of '84; but as there was no team in '85, who shall elect the captain for '86? There are not enough men from the old '84 team left in college to make an election by them satisfactory; for if the election was at all close, say 4 to 3, there might be some hard feeling, and we want the season to open next fall...