Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...induce the Powers That Be to change their minds and abolish morning prayers. Again, the athletic committee, although they would be not a little surprised if we should claim to know as much about Greek and mathematics as they do, feel sure that they know quite as much about foot ball and kindred sports as we do, and that to consult the students in those matters as to questions of fact or expediency would be superfluous...
...umpire in foot ball games is daily becoming a more and more important personage. Gradually he has assumed the duties of field captain as well as those hitherto required of him; and it is of him in this latter capacity that we wish to speak. The work of Mr. Connor, the Princeton umpire in the game on Saturday, was of immense advantage to his team. Placed in a position where he could see everything and relieved from all the mental strain required of an actual player, he was able to coach and give the signs to his eleven...
MORE ASSOCIATION GAMES AT FOOT BALL.-Now that there are only three colleges in the Association, the question of having more than one game with each seems again worth consideration. There really seems no overpowering reason why there should only be a single game with each of our rivals. Even if there were four colleges in the Association, as there may be next year, this would only require each to play six games. As it is little games are plenty and big games few.-[Princetonian...
According to a writer in the Encyclopaedia Brittannica, it was the Voluntary movement of 1860, and the impetus thereby given to open-air exercise and amusement, that have caused the revival of foot-ball. But, whatever the cause may have been, of the revival itself there is no question. Thirty years or so ago, for example, the game was hardly known at the Universities, was at best pursued by some exuberent freshmen, Etonians mostly, who had not yet outgrown their salad days. Now our "young barbarians" of Oxford and Cambridge kick away at each other's shins as keenly...
...good deal harried and mocked in these latter times, poor thing ! But surely so baseless an imputation as this has never yet been cast upon her. We had always thought the game as played in "the Field" at Eton was the purest form of football known, the most essentially foot ball of any. On no excuse whatever may the hands be employed, except to touch the ball, when it passes behind the goal lines, to save or get a "rouge." Even the rules of the Association game, which may be described as a sort of compromise between all rules...