Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball men at Yale now wear pretty gold watch charms, appropriate trophies of last year's championship...
PARK THEATRE.- Maggie Mitchell, as "Little Bar-foot." Performance...
...foot ball has been practically abolished, a number of old foot ball men ought to turn their attention to Lacrosse. The sport is one which brings into play fully as many mental and physical qualities as foot-ball, and is not attened with so much roughness, nor marred by so frequent injuries...
...Lehigh Burr discusses the effect of faculty interference on athletics, remarking that, "Athletics seem to claim more of the time of faculties, at the present day, than more distinctively collegiate topics. The Harvard faculty gleefully writhes in accumulating evidence of the immoral tendencies of foot-ball, and prohibits its cultivation unless the student of delicate physique right gallantly arrayed in bib and tucker, kicks just five pounds avoirdupois, and stands out of sight of the rest of the team...
...radical position assumed by Harvard in regard to foot-ball and other branches of college athletics is in contrast to the temperate attitude toward them maintained by Princeton. Two important actions have recently been taken here, one by the faculty, the other by the students, which show the prevailing tendency. In a recent mass-meeting the students appointed a Graduate Committee for foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, track athletics, and tennis. The gentlemen who constitute it are Messrs. C. C. Cuyler and David Paton, of New York, and Mr. Alexander Van Reusselaer, of Philadelphia. In a second mass-meeting...