Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present university foot-ball eleven, no member has been on the team more than one season. The five-year rule won't damage us for some time to come. [Princetonian...
...Willistonian has promised the Williston seminary foot-ball eleven a supper if they succeed in making a goal from the field or a touchdown against the Yale freshmen. The Williston rush line averages 160 pounds...
...with the exception of Mr. Wilkie Collins, nobody will agree with me when I say that our boys of the upper and middle classes, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, pass a great deal too much of their time at play. By play I mean rowing, cricket, foot ball, lawn tennis, and other athletic exercises generally. Athletic training turns out thousands of brave, brawny, healthy young Englishmen, who are utterly unable to earn their own living at home, and who, if they emigrated, could, as a means of support, only look to manual labor, in which they would...
...York Herald gives the following account of the game between Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania : "The university of Pennsylvania foot-ball team visited Princeton yesterday accompanied by a hundred or more enthusiastic supporters, to play the Princeton club. The match was the first good game of foot-ball played there this season, and much interest centered in it because the University of Pennsylvania had played Harvard so close. The game was well played throughout, the tackling being hard and the running good. In the first half Princeton had the wind in her favor and Wanamaker made a touchdown...
...Stevens eleven played a game of foot-ball with the Lafayette eleven Saturday, beating them by a score of 14 to 4. The Lafayette men forced the Stevens team well down during the first hour and, aided by the sun and wind, which were directly in the face of the visitors, succeeded in securing two touchdowns, from which no goals were obtained. Campbell, of Lafayette particularly distinguished himself this part of the game by good general play. During the second hour the visitors collected themselves, and in a few minutes forced Lafayette to make a safety. A moment later Torrence...