Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent annual meeting of the Princeton Foot-Ball Association is declared to have been the largest held for two years, "making it evident that the old spirit still lives, and that defeat cannot quell...
About this time last winter the college papers recommended in strong terms that athletes, foot-ball men especially, should embrace the opportunity for exercise afforded by the lacrosse team. In spite of the general call for candidates made by the lacrosse men very few out of the large number of desirable athletes chose to come out and practice. This was a great mistake. The simple principles of lacrosse do very much to perfect a player in the points requisite for foot-ball, while they give him a test of speed and endurance necessary for track athletics. One of the most...
...member of '86 was heard yesterday indignantly explaining to a number of classmates that he "didn't object so much to the young lady stepping on his foot, for the car was crowded, but it was altogether too much when she smiled sweetly on his left-hand neighbour and begged that fellow's pardon...
...management of the Oxford Magazine will be in the hands of an editorial committee composed of graduates and undergraduates of the university. Among other general matters, it will aim at giving the latest university news, full account of sports - cricket, rowing, foot-ball and the like - reports of important university sermons, studies on politics, literature and art; original verse, critiques of recent books, and whatever is worth mentioning in university life. Mr. James Thornton, Oxford, will be the publisher...
...that should encourage all succeeding crews with good hopes for victory. How strong an opponent the freshmen will find in Columbia's freshman crew it is of course impossible to conjecture. The New York university will certainly make a strong effort to maintain the lead gained last year. The foot-ball record that '86 has already made should encourage the class to still greater efforts in other branches of sport...