Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton freshmen recently defeated the Naval Academy in Annapolis at foot-ball, score...
...standing of the various clubs in the foot-ball league is as follows: Princeton has won 3 games, with a total score of 139 points; Yale 2 games, 119 points; Wesleyan 1 game, 25 points; Pennsylvania, 0 games, 23 points...
...anticipated pleasure of meeting the Advocate and the Lampoon on the foot-ball field must be foregone. Our challenge has not been accepted. We did not expect that the staid elderly matron - the Advocate - would show the white feather. Black accords with your age and sombre disposition, respected maid of Harvard. Do not shock our taste by wearing white. As your formal edict has gone forth, declining the contest, please accept our hopes that you enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner, and that many more are in store for you. We can understand why Lampy. displayed his discretion, rather than his valor...
Princeton can at last fairly claim a hard won championship in foot-ball. While the contest this year has hardly excited at Harvard the interest taken in it during past years deeper interest in the individual work of the players has never, perhaps, been shown. The playing of Yale as a team cannot be classed as worthy of its usual high commendation, but, notwithstanding the evident lack of first-class material, there was still exhibited much of the old time determination to win. But fortune has, for this time at least, decided against the blue. We recognize the pluck shown...
...following, clipped from the Yale News, relates to the Yale-Princeton foot-ball game last Saturday...