Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcement which we publish in other column of the Committee on Athletics of the Faculty, although certainly sudden and unexpected, is not altogether surprising when we remember the hostile attitude which the committee has maintained towards foot ball for the past two years...
...project of entirely abandoning foot ball, which has become one of our recognized college games, is worthy of the most careful consideration and discussion. The committee must have weighty reasons indeed to induce them to take such a step-a step a so contrary to the spirit of independence and intelligence in which we pass our college lives-and we think it right that these reasons should be made known before any hasty criticism of their action is attempted. We feel confident, however, that the students as a body will regret to find the faculty interposing in their sports...
...Committee on Athletics, having become convinced that the game of foot ball, as at present played by college teams, is brutal, demoralizing to players and to spectators, and extremely dangerous, propose to request the faculty to prohibit the game after the close of the present season...
...scrub game of foot ball was played on Jarvis field, yesterday afternoon, between elevens from club tables at Memorial Hall...
...foot ball season has practically ended; nothing remains but for our Freshman to try their mettle against Yale. This fall we had confidently expected success in lawn tennis. At one time we had hoped for our foot ball team, but Pennsylvania, Wesleyan, Princeton and Yale were too much for us. Let us not, however, feel discouraged over the past. At lacrosse we see no reason why with hard work our team cannot retrieve their defeats of last spring. Boating is our own especial province, and it is only once within the last three years that Yale has been fortunate enough...