Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Seven members of the Freshman eleven are candidates for the class crew. Only two of the Varsity eleven are pulling with the Varsity crew At Yale a large portion of the boating men are also distinguished as foot ball players...
...foot ball team composed of Frenchmen recently undertook to make a tour through England: before they had played three games, however, they were so roughly handled that they were obliged to abandon the project...
...this season, and, if found useful, adopted all over the country. It will be a grand thing if, in course of time, an umpire can have all his duties performed by electricity; and if the inventor of this noble plan could only find something to experiment on in the foot ball field, we should see in course of time the referee's place, even in a Yale-Princeton game, a sinecure...
Says the Courant, speaking of the junior promenade: Next Tuesday evening a beautiful young lady, on being shown the championship flags in boating, base-ball, foot-ball, etc., etc., (we haven't room to enumerate), will ask of her athletic protector, "When the other colleges have promenades what do they use for decorations?" Reply, with pleased smile-"Oh, Harvard needs no decoration, and Princeton uses a lacrosse stick...
Elihu, the patron saint of the Yale Lit., philosophically looks out upon the foot-ball field, and thus discourses: "The recent foot-ball upheaval at Harvard has not passed by without shaking Elihu, though himself nothing of an athlete. As an outsider then, he has such a feeling of diffidence on the subject as to prevent him from making anything like a dogmatic statement can only suggest. But it seems to him that it would have been a bright idea for the Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter...