Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have no wish to continue any controversy with the Yale News in regard to its report on the recent freshman foot-ball game. One point, however, in an editorial on this subject which was contained in last Monday's News calls for further comment. The HERALD-CRIMSON, we wish to state, has no "eagerness to attack" either the News or Yale itself. Such an assertion is not only unwarranted but absurd. And further, we did not "deliberately mis-state" the item, as the editorial so courteously puts it. We gave it what we considered a most natural interpretation...
...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...
...present below the following extract from an editorial in the Princetonian. It voices the opinions which a great many persons now hold in regard to the importance of the position of referee in a Rugby foot-ball game : "To those who have watched the development of the game in recent years, the inefficiency of the most stringent regulations governing the conduct of the players would have occasioned no surprise. The Harvard game, in New York, was only a practical illustration of the fact that rules will not make a player a gentleman, if he naturally inclines toward ruffianism. The fact...
...betrayed into conduct unworthy his name. We would not, however, favor an increased severity in the punishment for off-side play. In our judgment, a player should be warned three times before he can be disqualified for off-side play. There is such a thing in a game of foot-ball as legitimate deception, such as is required to play an off-side game, and in doing so, to evade the scrutiny of watchful judges, who are on the lookout for opportunities to have the opponents of their respective sides warned by the referee...
While it is necessary that the rules, in defining the proper range of a player during a scrimmage, should prohibit off-side play, yet the latter has become an important and interesting point in the science of foot-ball, so much so, indeed, that lovers of the sport would not like to see it rendered impossible by doing away with the warning. Besides, the rules should not place off-side play on a par with such cowardly and unmanly offenses as tripping, throttling, etc., by prescribing the same punishment for both. Under the present code the penalties in some instances...