Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball team leave for New York at eleven this morning. They will pass the night in that city, going to Princeton on Saturday morning. The team will play as follows: Rushers, Adams, Kendall, Bonsal, Appleton, Cabot, Hartley and Gilman; quarterback, Kimball; half-backs, Peabody and Austin; full-back, Cowling; substitutes, (backs) Henry and Biddle; (quarter-back) Mason; (rushers) Codman and Crane. The rush line averages 169 1-2 lbs. and the whole team165...
...Yale News discourses as follows on "our heavy team." Now as the time draws near for the inter-collegiate foot-ball games, it may be interesting to the college to know the probable team and their weights. This year the team is unusually heavy, the aggregate weight of the whole team is 2.258 lbs. The average of the thirteen men is 173.6 lbs. and the average of the rush line is 185 lbs. The individual weights are as follows...
...presence of about 50 spectators the glee Club and Pierian Sodality played a match game of foot-ball yesterday morning on Jarvis. Play was begun at about 9.40 and consisted of two periods of 20 minutes each. During the first half the glee Club forced the playing and Howard gained a touchdown, but nothing was scored. In the second half the Pierians braced up and kept the ball on their adversaries' territory most of the time, forcing them once to make a safety. This finished the scoring. Many langhable incidents occurred caused by the slippery ground and eagerness...
...great disadvantage under which they labor seems to be the large number of new and inexperienced men which they have been forced to employ this year. It is an indisputable fact that experience is a most powerful promoter of success in an inter-collegiate contest, and in foot-ball probably more than in any other game this holds true. To obviate this difficulty Princeton has wisely centred her game on one of her old and experienced players and the entire eleven combine to support him in every play. We had an opportunity of seeing Princeton play this sort...
There will be an excursion in N. H. 4 today to Quincy station, and thence by foot to Braintree, where there is a tribalite region containing many fossils...