Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Still more chest weights are being placed in the gymnasium. At the rate of progress made this winter in squeezing needed apparatus in every available corner, there will soon be scarcely a foot of wall or floor uncovered...
...undergraduates. We hardly like to realize this perhaps, but it is a fact too important to overlook and too evident to contradict. Twenty years ago the students of Harvard College took practically no exercise in comparison with today. The greater majority of our sports have sprung up since then. Foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, tennis, track athletics, etc, have passed up through deferent stages of development; they started with the school boy's idea of playing "for the fun of the thing," in which stage little interest was taken, and soon received the instigation of competition which has been...
Among the floral decorations at Junior Promenade Concert at Yale, was suspended a large floral foot-ball, bearing the word "champion" in white upon its sides; from it hung two smaller foot-balls, painted crimson and orange and black. During the evening the football, with its appendages, fell and broke upon the floor. Was it an ill omen? [Princetonian...
...things Yale is content to follow and learn of Harvard. This willingness extended even to New London;" and before the laughter had died away the speaker continued, "And last fall and the fall before and I don't know how many more falls, Yale also followed Harvard across the foot-ball field up town...
...census of sporting men and athletes has been taken in Canada, and the yield is 15,000 lacrosse players, 5,000 curlers, 2,000 foot-ball players, 1,000 rowing men, 1,000 base-ballists, 1,000 bicyclists, and 1,000 given to other sports...