Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday last, the Inter-collegiate Foot-Ball Association met in New York. Mr. Corwin of Yale was elected secretary and treasurer for the coming year. The championship of 1885 was then formally awarded to Princeton...
There is a movement on foot for a new chapel petition. It will be essentially the same as the one presented to the faculty last year. A thorough canvass of the college will be made...
...Yale News exhorts its readers to remember that they must not be too confident in regard to foot-ball next year. Complaints in regard to Yale's poor playing against Michigan are frequent...
Harvard, though nominally out of foot-ball, has yet sufficient interest in the game to form class foot-ball teams and play for a "cup." This is rather startling. To the casual observer it would appear that Harvard, wearied of always coming out well down the list, had decided to take a year off, devote her time to the advancement of general interest in the game and then come in next year with a large number of fine players to choose from. - Yale Record...
Since time immemorial, the faculty has decidedly quenched all signs of such a thing as playing in the yard. We have even seen a foot-ball man prevented by a member of the faculty from tossing a foot-ball in the air while crossing the yard. This rule, however, does not seem to apply to the Cambridge non-collegiate youths who assemble daily on the avenue in front of the library and play "polo" to the great inconvenience of all who have to cross the yard. Consistency has never been a strong point of the faculty, but here at last...