Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard now holds the college championship in general athletics, tennis and lacrosse; Yale in base-ball and foot-ball...
...record in the field of athletics which will probably not be beaten for years to come. Her crew has been victorious in two class races, and has never come in last, while at the same time she has put excellent men in the university boat. In general athletics and foot-ball she has done more than her fair share of the work, while her freshman nine, although unable to defeat Yale, made a good showing. In scholarship she compares favorably with any class Harvard has sent forth, the average being a very high one. The college will join...
...University of Michigan is engaged in laying some very deep plans, and already proposes to send her foot-ball team East next fall to contend with Harvard and Yale. We can assure them a hearty welcome if they come...
...that the nine has played its last game in the college championship series, a brief review of its work will be of interest. The nine this year, as all are aware, has not been successful in its college games and has made a place for itself near the foot of the list. It is not possible to give any one reason for this poor showing, for there are many reasons. We were handicapped at the start by not having the use of a professional pitcher to bat against in the winter. The result has been lamentably weak batting...
...mothers. It may come to this, that we have to refuse to allow our students to play with those colleges which lay no restraint on the time devoted to games. A student here told his professor that he had come to college, not to study, but to play foot-ball. We do not wish our college to be viewed by young men as a place where this can be done...