Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...background is now being made for Pach, to be used in taking the positions of the nines, the foot-ball teams, etc. It represents the upper end of the college yard and takes in a number of the college buildings with Holworthy in the background...
...Yale Courant makes the rather astonishing claim that W. C. Camp, the well-known Yale foot-ball and base-ball player, "has certainly done as much as, and we feel that we might say more than, any man in this country to advance athletic sports...
...whole days for the latter set of men, and the result is the total time expended. Not a bad bargain for young men who want strong bodies and some of whom would otherwise be neglecting and often times actively destroying their constitutions. Each year base-ball and foot-ball become more and more self-supporting - at Princeton they are quite...
...including special students, there were 150 who trained more or less faithfully through the winter with the hope of getting into the University nine or crew, the freshmen nine or crew, the lacrosse team, or the "Mott Haven" team. This does not include members of the University and freshman foot-ball teams, which are organized simply for inter-collegiate contests, because their training, though strict while it lasts, ends with the coming of winter. The three upper-class crews are also left out of the account, although not nearly so many candidates could be kept in training for them...
...FOOT-BALL, '85 - J. Simpkins...