Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a movement on foot at Yale to provide a cup to be given to the man who makes the best foot ball kicking record during ten years...
...more. The strain was clearly too much for Perry, however, and at the end of two minutes, Columbia had pulled an inch of the rope to their side. From this time they kept increasing their advantage, until they had 5 inches at the end of four minutes, and a foot when time was called. The arrangements on the shoulders of the Columbia rope men evidently gave them a great help, not only in holding, but in pulling, for by this means their hands slipped less, and they could use their strength to more effect...
...advantage without many heaves, so that before three minutes they had two inches, at four and a half minutes three inches, and when time was called five inches. Higgins, anchor of '91, did not get his legs fairly straightened out during the tug and would probably have lost a foot or more of rope in another minute...
...with a view of increasing the science of the game and rendering the players less liable to injury. The game as played under these rules bears a strong resemblance to football. There are eleven men on each side, and the team is organized very much the same as in foot-ball. Thus far the revival is said to be due to aristocratic influences,-that is to say, the clubs formed have been composed of men of high social standing, a fact which of itself tends to give the game prestige in England...
...presidents of the four classes and the chief executive officers of the Boat Club and Base Ball, Foot Ball, Athletic and Tennis Associations, will meet at the rooms of the 'Varsity Club, on Friday March 22, at 1.30 p. m. to elect student members of the Auditing committee...