Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Just to make your foes at foot-ball all to quail...
...class games at Yale include "throwing the lacrosse ball" and "kicking the foot-ball...
...Bertron, throwing the hammer, by 54 feet, 10 inches; G. M. Vincient, the 2-mile bicycle race, in 7m. 30 1/2s.; H. S. Brooks, the 440-yard run, in 52 1/2s.; D. H. Buffum, throwing the base-ball, by 305 feet, 1 inch; E. L. Richards, kicking the foot-ball, by 168 feet, and C. W. Cutler the 120-yard hurdle in 19 1/4s...
...himself and for society that each man should be himself rather than that every one should be forced into a dull uniformity. The prescribed system, on the other hand, works on the principle that one shoe should be established by induction or inspiration or what not, and every foot turned and twisted and jammed...
...looking over the programme of outdoor athletic meetings in the various colleges we notice that nearly every one has events in lacrosse and base-ball throwing or foot-ball kicking. Although our meetings are rather crowded with the large number of necessary events, still it seems possible that the time could be profitably spared to give opportunity for a contest in one if not all of these additional events. The trial at foot-ball kicking could take place at the fall meeting, and it seems as though base-ball throwing would make an interesting event in the coming spring meeting...