Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman foot-ball eleven played the eleven of Phillips Andover Academy Saturday, and were defeated by a score of one goal to nothing. The supreme confidence of '86 in its eleven was slightly shaken; but in justice to the team, it may be said that the Andover campus is very unfortunately situated, and any eleven unacquainted with its peculiarities is at a great disadvantage. The ball was kicked off at 2.43 by Woodbury, who touched it with his foot and then passed it to one of the rushers, who, however, was soon stopped. By good playing of Kimball and Austin...
...freshman foot-ball game with Yale will be played on the 18th of November, the same day of the Harvard-Princeton game...
...University Foot-Ball Eleven leave for New York on Friday, Nov. 10th, by the one o'clock train. They play Columbia, at Hoboken, Saturday, Nov. 11th, at two o'clock. It is hoped that a large number of men will be present to encourage the team in their first game for the college championship...
...Varsity had a very fine afternoon for their foot-ball match with Amherst Saturday, and though the game as a whole was not particularly exciting, still a number of quite brilliant plays from time to time made it interesting for a while. Amherst kicked off at 2.40, and in three minutes Harvard scored a touch-down through Wesselhoeft from which Mason kicked a goal. During the rest of the three quarters the ball was on Amherst's territory most of the time, and three or four times Harvard narrowly missed scoring, but nothing was gained by either side...
...Toronto University and Toronto foot-ball clubs have started an agitation to revise the present Rugby Union rules, and are trying to get all the clubs in Canada to join with them in this much needed reform...