Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Yale Foot Ball Association, trophies were voted to the members of the eleven. Is this reward or consolation? -(Princetonian...
There's nothing like notoriety. Harvard's '84 foot ball team is posing before the country as advertisements for a brand of cigarettes.- (Princetonian...
Goodwin '88 of Yale, a rusher on the foot ball team, married a young lady of New Haven and left college for California...
...meeting of the Alumni of Brown, of Boston and vicinity, President Robinson expressed himself as follows on the subject of athletics: "The students composing these bodies (foot ball and base ball teams), make study a secondary consideration. This I submit is a prodigious shame throughout the whole country. (Great applause.) I believe in a gymnasium, where every student will be compelled to take regular exercise under a competent instructor...
...leaping came the javelin throwing, in which the object was distance, not accuracy in hitting a certain mark. The javelin was light, and had no head, and was thrown by a thong. In this event the three men who made the shortest throws were dropped out. Next the foot race was held; this was the most primitive of all the contests, and for a long time was the only event at the Olympic games. From this fact came the custom of naming the year after the winner in this event. In the Pentathlon the customary distance was two hundred yards...