Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commend the article on foot-ball in Sunday's Boston Herald to the attention of our friends at Yale...
Johns Hopkins University has a "Clifton Foot-ball Club...
...foot-ball match to decide the class championship between the Harvard and Yale freshmen took place on Holmes field Saturday and resulted in a tie. The warmer weather of Friday gave the freshmen a chance to remove the snow, which threatened to interfere with the match, and by Saturday noon the ground was in fair condition. About 2.40 the ball was kicked off and by pretty rushing Harvard forced the ball well up to Yale's goal. Yale rallied, however, and carried it down the field by a pretty run of Peters'. Good rushing by Austin and Adams forced Yale...
...Columbia College lacrosse players have now an excellent opportunity offered them to give the foot-ball players of the college a Roland for their Oliver, by adopting a set of resolutions applicable to the foot-ball team, similar to those adopted in the case of the lacrosse club of Columbia College last season. "What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," and, under this rule, why should not the foot-ball team be disbanded on account of their failure to win a single match of the championship as much as the lacrosse team of the college...
...sorry not to be able to extend our sincere congratulations to Yale upon her success in winning the foot-ball championship for another year. If, however, the conduct of her team and the sentiment of her press can be taken as a criterion, Yale cares little for the respect and, consequently, still less for the congratulations of defeated rivals. When a team plays a foul, unfair game deliberately and intentionally, we consider that we have just cause for complaint. But when the college which such a team represents upholds such conduct, and the college press has the audacity, not only...