Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paul Tullane has just completed the donation to his administrators of bonds yielding $19,000 yearly for the use of Tulave University, Louisiana. This last gift of Mr. Tullane to the university fund makes it foot up $1,000,000, with very much more in prospect...
...letter of the Yale men in reference to the Harvard-Yale foot-ball match was erroneously reported to have been addressed to the faculty. It was directed to Prof. Norton...
...lacrosse team will play the bicycle club a match game of foot-ball today on Jarvis field; game called...
...managers of our foot-ball eleven were surprised and not a little amused Friday at receiving a telegram purporting to come from the Columbia eleven, which stated that they had heard of the decision of our faculty and wanted to know whether they should come on Saturday or not. In view of the previous refusal of Columbia to play and the consequent forfeiture of the game to us, the utter absurdity of this communication is apparent at once. In excuse for Columbia however, it must be said that further inquiries by our manager soon gained us the information that...
...play a match game on the polo grounds on Thanksgiving day. This action will cause serious loss, financial and otherwise. In the first place the faculty force the Harvard management to break a definite verbal agreement entered into by representatives of the two colleges acting through the Yale foot-ball president, with the consent of the Harvard president, Mr. Clark, and the manager of the polo grounds. This manager would have perfect right to claim damages from Yale and Harvard for breach of contract...