Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton sophomores have asked Yale '86 to play them a game of foot-ball this fall...
...members started from the steps of University and after riding round the yard went by North Avenue to Medford and thence through Malden to Lynn. This was reached without any falls or accidents at 10.55. Here the club divided, 7 going back to Cambridge in order to see the foot-ball match and the rest going on to Newburyport. The Cambridge party started from Lynn at 11.05 and reached Cambridge at 12.26 having stopped 10 minutes...
...college. To be a success it should keep these two objects in view; the one, to form a team for competition; the other to give advantages for the practice of a capital sport to a large number of men, whoar physically or otherwise incapable of joining in base ball, foot ball or track athletics. Both these objects can better be secured by getting a range, (there are several,) nearer the university than Walnut Hill, where we believe the club proposes to shoot because of the advantage of having a 800, a 900 and a 1000yd. range. Now there...
...those freshmen who expect to go to Andover and support the foot-ball team on Wednesday, the 7th, are requested to leave their names before Monday evening, at Bartlett's in the book left for that purpose, in order that reduced rates may be secured as was done for the Exeter game...
...much time to academic work, but to receive that air of refinement and that touch of grace which tradition says one only gets at Oxford or Cambridge. Their academic work has been done already at one of the great public schools or under private tutors. Then the boating, the foot-ball, the cricket, the tennis, the hunting, the intercourse with "fellows," "scholars," lecturers, and professors, the acquaintances of the young aristocracy, and the nameless air of academic refinement are the necessary and finishing requisites of an English gentleman. To be that is the ambition and aim of every well-born...