Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wesleyan foot-ball team have scored 90 points to their opponents...
...Sargent of Harvard is a strong supporter of foot-ball and considers it a better game than base-ball...
...more club of twelve or fourteen students can obtain board by applying at Mrs. T. H. Brewer's, 1 Brattle Sq. Room formerly occupied by University Foot Ball team...
Weclip the following from the Columbia Spectator:- Columbia is still in a broil with Princeton and Harvrd with regard to foot-ball matters. it will be remembered that Princeton and /Columbia were to have played at the Polo grounds on November 10th, and that the game was postponed until the following Monday, with the stipulation, that Columbia should have all the gate-money, after deducting the cost of Princeton's trip to New York. The game was to have been played at Princeton, but Columbia forfeited it by a non0appearance. Princeton now demands $131.14 as the sum of the expenses...
...That the interference of the Harvrd faculty in athletics is justifiable." On the secret ballot on the merits of the question the faculty were sustained by a vote of 35 to 21. Mr. A. G. Webster, '85, then opened the debate in the affirmative, claiming that the game of foot-ball had degenerated greatly of late, and to sustain his position quoted from a New York newspaper in its account of the Harvard-Yale game. He also declared it well known that the Harvard eleven had gone to Princeton, determined to disable a prominent player if necessary...