Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University of Pennsylvania Magazine says: "Owing to the fact that foot ball has broken up so many students the Trustees are thinking about breaking up foot ball...
...great interest taken in foot ball in England, and the skill with which it is played are well shown by the fact that the combined foot ball team of Oxford and Cambridge were recently defeated with ease by a London eleven...
...athletics and upon the records made by our teams fails to cause our hearts to throb with that bashful modesty which for so many years has been a conspicuous feature of the character of every Harvard man. In fact to put it squarely we have been disgracefully whipped in foot ball, the chief fall sport, and even in tennis we bend the knee to our victorious rival, Yale. If as we sincerely hope, defeats are the best incentives to victories, our teams must have received enough incentive during the last few months to make them well nigh invincible for many...
Last month Oxford defeated Cambridge at foot ball for the fourth successive year. The record of matches between the English universities is much like that of the matches between Harvard and Yale, very one-sided. Oxford has won six, Cambridge two, and four have been drawn games...
Second-That before the recent game of foot ball was played on the pologround in New York, the faculty had decided that after January 1, 1885, intercollegiate games should be played by Princeton students only upon college grounds. In view of existing arrangements, and for other reasons, the faculty did not deem it advisable to prohibit the usual foot ball game on the polo ground on thanksgiving day of this year. The authorities of the college are of the opinion that manly sports should not be discouraged but rather encouraged, as fitted to promote the health of students. To give...