Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...challenge from the Williams freshmen has been received by the Harvard freshman eleven for a game of foot - ball on the 24th. No action has yet been taken...
...game of foot - ball last night at the Olympian Club rink between the first elevens of the Chauncy Hall and English High Schools, resulted in a draw, neither eleven winning a goal in a spirited contest of twenty minutes, the time allotted for the game...
...admirers of foot - ball in this city have seen the play of three of the competing teams in the inter - collegiate championship matches, and now await the event of the fourth. On election day the exhibition game between the Columbia and Princeton elevens afforded an opportunity of seeing the "coming champions" from Princeton do some of the prettiest field work in strategic play ever shown on the Polo Grounds, and last Saturday the strength of the Harvard team was exhibited in their opening match with the Columbias. In these two contests the Columbias opened play rather badly, but in their...
...only affect the race for the championship by winning now and then, through some lucky chance, a game from nines whose superiority is easily proved. Williams, we hear, desires a place in the league; Trinity will come next, and before long Columbia will heave in sight to repeat her foot-ball and lacrosse record on the diamond. The position of Amherst and Dartmouth in the base-ball arena, and of Columbia on the foot-ball field, is quite analogous to the position Princeton would occupy if she attempted to produce an eight and rowed on the Thames every year behind...
University of Pennsylvania freshmen have a foot-ball team this year, and are playing with Pennsylvania academies...