Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rutgers foot ball team, it is said, will be unusually light this year...
Trinity vs. Harvard-Foot Ball, Jarvis Field...
...foot ball team at Princeton will probably be composed of the following men: Rushers, Hodge, '86, Irvine '88 Bird, '85, (captain), Fine, P. G. Harris, '86, Wanamaker, '86, Decamp, '86; Qaarter back, Hodge, '86; Half backs, Baker, '85, Lamar, '86; Full back, Beckham, '36. Of these men, Bird, Harris Wanamaker, Decamp, Baker and Lamar played on last year's team...
Without any further Shelly shallying we believe the college may as well squarely face the present outlook in foot-ball, and see just how desperate our chances for success have really become. It is only by so doing, and then, in the full realization of all this means, by rousing from our present strange lethargy to new energy, that even a ghost of a show of winning the championship is left us. To anyone who has watched the men practicing on Jarvis, these words are perhaps unnecessary, for all such must have noticed, not only how few men were...
...athletic point of view, is the football team. Although a number of men have been hard at work for more than a week, it is too early as yet to prophesy as to what sort of a team Harvard will have this year. Our poor success at foot-ball in the past has been explained in various ways, but the principal reason seems to be that the science of the game is better understood at Yale than elsewhere. There the team receives the benefit of an old experienced player who devotes the greater part of his time in the fall...