Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Bremner, '86 who has been playing full back on the Yale foot-ball eleven, injured his shoulder so severely in practice last Thursday as to incapacitate him from playing for some time...
...desire to repeat our request of a few days ago to the foot-ball management, that better order be maintained among the spectators at the practice games of the eleven, especially as it is announced that games have been arranged with the Institute of Technology and Williams College, to be played during the week. It is very evident that unless the spectators are kept in their places and not allowed to encroach on the field, they interfere seriously with the play as well as cut off most of the view from the seats, and so it would seem...
...school with a conciliatory address, asking the co-operation of the pupils, but ending with a firm expression of his intentions and expectations. Very soon after which Bill Gates, a "six-footer," commenced the usual rebellion and tried to trip up Sykes, who instantly collared, floored, and put his foot on the rebel, and kept it there, until Bill promised to abide by the rules of the school in general, and to submit to the application of the big flat ruler of the teacher in particular. But when the latter went for this instrument of authority, Bill went...
Freshmen who intend to go to Exeter and attend the foot-ball game on Wednesday the 31st, can secure tickets at the general ticket office on the second floor of the B. and M. R. R. depot. The train leaves at 12.30 A. M. and a special car will be attached...
While we at Harvard have been alternately shocked by the boat house disaster and entertained by the freshman sports, tennis tournaments and foot-ball practice, our neighbors at Yale have been undergoing experiences quite as varied, and even more unfortunate. The recent death of a prominent member of '84 has cast a feeling of sadness over the greater part of the college, which will not be entirely dispelled for many weeks. There have been various rumors of the prevalence of typhoid fever, but as yet they appear to be without foundation, this being the only death attributable to such...