Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Herald terms Saturday's game "Rugby." Its mistake may well be pardoned, since it resembled Rugby far more than American foot-ball...
...management of the '86 foot-ball team wish to return thanks to all members of the class who assisted in clearing off the snow from Holmes field yesterday afternoon...
...game of lacrosse between the freshmen and the AEtnas of Boston will probably not be played next Saturday, if the game of foot-ball between the Harvard and Yale '86 elevens comes...
...main comment to be made on the Harvard-Yale foot-ball game yesterday is that it was a disgrace to college athletics. There should never be an act done on a foot-ball field, or anywhere else, which deserves the hisses of the spectators, and certainly the repeated and prolonged hissing yesterday was for the greater part all too richly deserved. [Boston Sunday Globe...
Harvard cannot defeat Yale at foot-ball unless she consents to place on her team men who will substitute roughness for skill and professional enmity for amateur courtesy. But such a team will never represent Harvard, and may they never bear its honored name. A few such contests as that of Saturday will blast forever the reputation of foot-ball as being a commendable inter-collegiate game...