Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Members of the Yale foot ball team who expect to play their game against Princeton next Thursday are watching and waiting with deep interest for the result of Mr. J. L. Sullivan's test case on the law relating to pugilism." -[Boston Advertiser...
...college men. Let us, therefore, make a call. We knock, and the response, "Come in!" tells us that Snodkins is in. We enter, greet the "old fellow," start out with a discussion of the late Princeton game, and finally conclude that Harvard men don't know how to play foot ball anyway. Meanwhile we have been looking around. 'Gentlemen will not occupy the seats until the ladies are seated," is the first thing to meet our eyes. In another quarter we spy the notice, "No visitors on Sunday," and innocently conclude that Mr. Snodkins spends his Sundays at home. That...
...largest reduction in the cost of the tickets, forty-nine men must go down to New Haven. We do not believe there will be any great difficulty in getting this number of names; in fact we should be very much surprised if only forty-nine men went. The foot ball team has worked hard this year, harder, perhaps, than in any former year. The chances against them have been difficult to overcome, but no one will deny that they have struggled manfully, although unsuccessful, to overcome them. The more important the game, the better the team plays. We have only...
...Hopkins of '88, also did well on account of the quickness of his movements. The game with the Graduate eleven, which was to have been played today, has been given up. This news will be a disappointment to the students who were desirous of seeing some of the old foot ball prodigies once more on the field, but as the move was considered for the best interests of our eleven in their preparation to play Yale on Saturday, nobody ought to complain...
...which the people through their representatives, ever gave their own money to found a place of education. John Harvard himself, the gentleman continued, would regret that the inscription on his statue should imply the slightest want of recognition of the fact that, long before he had ever set foot upon these shores, the magistrates of the colony had taken formal steps to establish a seat of learning, to which they subsequently assigned his name...