Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Exonian is jubilant over victories in tennis and foot-ball with Andover and the "Tech" respectively...
...will say, though, that Yale has always made a mistake in looking so earnestly for beef to fill her shells. Beef may be advantageous in the rushline of a foot-ball team, and I believe no doubt it is, but I certainly believe boating authorities make a great error in paying so much attention to weight. Naturally a heavy man possessed of proportionally increased strength is a desirable person, but I have often noticed that college crews pay more attention to securing men of weight than to an investigation of the sinew which the candidates may possess...
...Newell, T. Woodbury (capt.); quarter back, W. F. Austin; half back, R. F. Perkins, W. S. Scott; full back, G. Perry. Substitutes, M. Agassiz and F. Wardman. This team is subject to change at any time, and any man in the freshman class who has ever played foot-ball before should consider it his duty to come...
...writer of your editorial appears to know little of the state of athletics at Harvard and should not have attempted to fill space in the paper by speaking of a subject about which he is so poorly informed. He says: "Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by," etc., and then complains because the lacrosse men do not step in and fill up this gap in the circle of sports. The fact is that foot-ball has not been laid aside even for a time, as the gentleman would easily see if he took...
...long been said that if foot-ball were to be abolished there was ready at hand a sport to take its place almost its equal in beneficial effect and in the popularity which it enjoyed. The game of lacrosse has for some time occupied with us an intermediate place between foot-ball and base-ball. Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by, lacrosse can well come to the front and take its place. Some interest has indeed been manifested in the sport, but the disappearance of the old familiar rush of foot-ball...