Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale foot ball management are said to have received $615 as their receipts from the Harvard game, and $1800 from the Princeton game...
...progress of events in our present foot ball complications is watched with deep interest by the Yale press...
...this connection we are pleased to note the extremely fair position taken by the News, upon the somewhat irregular method of procedure adopted by their freshman foot ball team. In fact, we can hardly conceive of an apology for the conduct of the eleven in failing to play the game agreed upon. The extract which we print in another column sets forth in plain terms the light in which their action was viewed at our sister university before the last action, namely a complete refusal to play the game was taken...
...college is curiously divided on the foot ball question. In the first place, there are those who resent any interference in athletics whatever on the part of the faculty. They want Yale's policy adopted here. But our faculty has settled that question once for all by establishing the Athletic Committee, and those gentlemen may as well take Harvard as she is, or go to Yale. Next come those who think foot ball all right as it is, or think the convention would have made whatever improvement can and need be made. These are few in number...
Those who urge the dangerousness of the game should remember, however, that the benefits of foot ball are by no means merely physical. The game developes character, develops it much more than any other game we have. It makes a man of you, teaches you fearlessness, quick thinking, self-control (or should, when rightly played). subordination. The game may be perverted. and the character it develops be bad character, as we see in the case of one, at least, of the colleges; but that may be said of everything that affects character at all. And because anything that helps...