Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard's record in athletics for the past year stands as follows according to our published reports: foot-ball, 11 games, 7 victories; cricket, 9 games, 5 victories; lacrosse, 10 games, 8 victories; base-ball, 24 games, 23 victories In addition to this record, the Mott Haven cup was won by Harvard for the sixth successive year...
...general demoralization of the Yale crew. And the CRIMSON warns the Harvard crew against putting any faith in such 'wails.' Moreover, the CRIMSON cites as an instance of such a wail's proving only a 'gag,' the articles which appeared in the Yale papers last fall about the foot-ball team, adding that the team afterwards proved so strong that Princeton had considerable difficulty in defeating it. Yes, if we remember rightly, Princeton did experience a little difficulty in vanquishing the Yale eleven-a difficulty which may be well seen from the score: Yale 6; Princeton...
...boating interests of the college, we feel compelled to take issue with it for an opinion expressed in its issue of last week. In an editorial advising the boat club to revive the class races in the fall, it spoke as if, because the faculty have prohibited inter-collegiate foot-ball, that sport was to die out from among our college games and be no longer worthy of consideration. It seems to us rather, as if next year is to be an important crisis in the history of foot-ball at Harvard. A time when it will need...
...spreads in the yard will save themselves much annoyance by informing their caterers,- first, that wagons will not be allowed in the yard after 12 M. on class day; secondly, that between 12 M. and 4 P. M., all materials for spreads must be carried in by attendants on foot; thirdly, that between 4 P. M. and 11 P. M., attendants will not be allowed to enter or leave the yard with dishes, ice-cream cans...
...lately in the year their chances of winning the race have been materially lessened, as any change in the make up of a crew is unfortunate at such a time," etc., etc. Now it seems as if we had heard a tale very similar to this before; the great foot-ball eleven last year which only succumbed to Princeton after a hard struggle, was declared to be "incompetent," "slothful," and "reluctant to play with any snap," etc., etc. Their last year's crew was decried in just the same way; and yet the worse the reports that gain credence about...