Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beginning of the year on successive Mondays, the first three men in the sophomore class initiated the freshmen into the "Customs" at the chapel. One of these originally forbade a freshmen to wear his hat in the college yard, unless it rained, hailed, or snowed, provided he was on foot and did not have both hands full. He was at the back and call of any senior who wanted him to perform some service...
...four years Rugby foot ball, as played by all the colleges of note in the eastern part of the country, has been struggling for existence at Cornell, against the combined forces of the old American game, prejudice and general student apathy. This year it has succeeded in driving its opponent from the field and overcoming the ancient prejudice against itself, but the third obstacle still prevents Rugby from obtaining a permanent footing upon our campus. Through the efforts of a few members of the association the foot ball grounds were marked out and a team chosen some four weeks...
...very well, but still where is our eleven? The season selected at the beginning of the season has not played a single game together. Some of them have not been on the field but once or twice. Now this is all wrong. Men that don't play foot ball are not the men to put on the eleven. A team that plays well together is immeasurably superior to a much heavier team of less experience. The natural conclusion then is this, put the men that play and train on the team. They are the ones who have enthusiasm enough...
...Exeter faculty have decided tha the preference is to be given to lacrosse in the fall rather than to base-ball After the foot-ball team are through with the grounds, the lacrosse team, hereafter, will have the first claim during the fall season...
...those freshmen who desire to go to Exeter and support the '87 foot-ball eleven in the game of Wednesday, the 31st, will please leave their names before Saturday evening at Bartletts', in a book left for that purpose, that reduced rates may be secured...