Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...repeal of the foot-ball rules was greeted with great enthusiasm through-out college...
Whereas the Committee on Athletics has advised the Faculty that the game of foot-ball has been much improved during the past season: - Voted, on recommendation of the Committee, that the Faculty prohibition of inter collegiate games of foot-ball, adopted Jan. 6, 1885, be now withdrawn...
...last season, and have suffered more serious losses. In lacrosse there several are vacancies that will be hard to fill, but there is considerable material to work on, and a good deal of interest. The prospect of holding the college championship another year is not at all gloomy. Should foot-ball be restored, and there now seems to be some prospect that it will, new interest will be added to the sports of the fall term, and one of the most interesting games that ever excite college audiences will again appear in Cambridge. In this sport the outlook would...
...prominent in athletics, together with the director of the gymnasium and a prominent medical authority in Cambridge. Its report, whatever it may be, will receive careful consideration from the faculty, and its recommendation will undoubtedly have great weight. Two branches of our athletics will receive especial attention, rowing and foot-ball. In regard to what action the faculty will take about a paid coach for our crews there is much speculation. But it is generally believed that the faculty will not retreat from its position taken last year. There is, however, almost a universal opinion that permission to play foot...
...best course to pursue in developing all the muscles of the body. Next term compulsory exercise will be enforced upon all undergraduates, but at present it is optional with them. The opening of the new building has awakened great enthusiasm in all branches of sport. All the foot-ball men and many others have begun active training for the boat crews. There are nearly fifty candidates in all. Ellis Ward is already at work as coach and trainer, and appearances at present point to an unusually strong crew for Pennsylvania next year. - Yale News...