Word: footing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...number of Harvard graduates witnessed the foot ball game yesterday afternoon...
...foot ball game with the University of Pennsylvania on Wennesday will be called...
...publish to-day a carefully prepared criticism of the foot ball team, which we hope will be taken in good part, both by the college and by the members of the team. There seems to be a general impression that the prospects of Harvard in foot ball this year have improved greatly since the beginning of the fall term. There is still however plenty of room for improvement, and this improvement we hope to see in the succeeding games. While we can do no worse than we did last year, we have the other alternative, that of doing much better...
...learn it, as none of them have so far been able to make a very long, high punt. Some of the players "run back" now and then. This is very seldom anything but loss. Every man ought to drill himself into the habit of never running back a foot. If there is no one back of you to pass the ball to, say down ; if there is, pass it at once. He can run to better advantage than you can, or else can kick...
...rusher jump for a player's neck, only to be warded off, dodged or carried along, and this too against light men-what will it be against Yale's big, heavy rushers ? Low tackling is always the best tackling, and it is a great compensation to short men in foot ball that they can tackle low more easily and effectively than tall men. Now our rushers are short, stocky men, and will play against large men ; and yet, with one or two exceptions, they deliberately throw away this great advantage. The men must be made to realize once...