Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...outlook for our success in foot-ball this fall is very bright. Of course it may be as yet a little early to make any predictions but we have already seen the candidates for the team at practice regularly for over two weeks, as well as in their game with Wesleyan and we are certainly able to tell pretty well what the material on hand will amount to. Although so few of our old men remain, there are plenty of new men ready and anxious to fill the vacancies, and moreover there is more than usual enthusiasm manifested...
...cannot too strongly urge everyone to encourage the foot-ball men by numbers and enthusiasm at the afternoon practice on Jarvis. We think that every man who takes any interest in the welfare of the eleven, ought to show his appreciation of the hard work that is being done by attending the practising as well as the games of the team as often as possible. But while this is in every way desirable men must be more careful about walking around, not across the new ground on Holmes. The ground has been planted with grass seed, part of which...
Matters must have reached a desperate state at Princeton, judging from a recent communication in the Princetonian. "One can hardly enter a room where there is a collection of fellows without finding grumbling, in one of its many phases, the main basis of conversation. The faculty, poor prospects for foot ball, base ball and the Glee club, and Princeton hard luck, all come in for their share of abuse...
...recent arrangement, Walter C. Camp, '81, who was a prominent factor in Yale sports, and for the past two years connected with the Graduate Advisory Athletic Committee, will hereafter superintend Yale's athletes, receiving $1,200 per year, the foot-ball association paying $300; base-ball, $300; athletic association, $300, and $300 from other sources. This displaces Frank Dole, who so successfully trained for the spring games.-[Spirit of the Times...
...foot ball team was favored with an almost perfect day for its first game yesterday, and a large number of students gathered on Jarvis to see it open the season...