Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hoped that these events will add some zest to the remaining fall practice, and that the men will come out in stronger force. The following men have done good work, and the team will probably be chosen from them, unless Easton and Henry who have been playing foot-ball, should play: Rueter, Goodale, Noyes, Marquand, Woods, Roundy, Baldwin, '85, Bradford, '86, Bowen, Abbott, '87, Howes, Hood and Pupper. The lacrosse team are working against every disadvantage this fall, and certainly deserve hearty support of the college...
...attendance should be large at the foot-ball game this afternoon, as the management have been obliged to guarantee a large amount to get this game...
...picked eleven composed of '85 and '86 men who were formerly pupils at St. Marks, will play a game of foot-ball today at Southboro' with the St. Marks eleven...
...freshmen are to be heartily congratulated on the abundance of material promised for their foot-ball team this fall. Although the men were necessarily late in getting to work the delay was soon made up for by the dates. In the practice games with the university many of the freshmen are showing up very finely, and on the whole '87 may be considered as making a very fair start. They must remember, however, that they have only made the start as yet, and that improvement must be steady and rapid if they are to beat Yale this fall...
This is the manner in which the News talks to Yale '87 : "We must be allowed the privilege of informing the freshman class that the university foot-ball authorities will not allow them to play any game with Harvard unless they put in the field a team with some claim to a decent proficiency in the game. When other freshmen classes have sent thirty men to the park from the first of the season, the class of '87 has never at one time had more than six. Six men out of 170 ! When you entered this college you no doubt...