Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college has gone wild over Rugby, and the prospects of the university foot-ball team are quite good. W. W. Niles, '83, is manager, and H. A. Drew, '83, captain. The names of the players are: Full-back, Gove; half-backs, Brooks, Oakes; quarter-back, Cushman; rushers, Drew, Towle, Weston, Nettleton, Brown, Rand and Rolfe; substitutes, Hulbert, Sargent, Bennett, Chellis. Capt. Greeley of the second Rugby team has his men out daily, and is giving the university team some excellent practice...
...refined and elegant model of courtesy the following reply to a foot-ball challenge sent by the class of '85 to '84 at Michigan University surpasses anything we have yet seen: "Resolved, That a common hangman be appointed; Resolved, That the common hangman burn the challenge in the presence of the class, after the secretary has cast the spit of the class upon it; Resolved, That the ashes be given to '85's foot-ball captain...
Rutgers defeated the University of Pennsylvania in foot-ball Saturday, 3 touch-downs...
Since the Yale College foot-ball team adopted Rugby in 1876, its record shows 82 goals...
Something new has been instituted in our midst; namely, a young ladies' foot-ball club. May it prosper.-[Lasell Leaves...