Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual foot-ball match between Exeter and Andover takes place a week from next Saturday...
...Record thinks the Yale foot-ball team "now promises to be one of the best that Yale has ever put on the field. The rushers are a little lighter than last year's, but what they have lost in weight they have gained in activity. So far the line has been invulnerable - the quarter-back never being interfered with, we believe, in a game - although it is true that we have played only light teams. The half-backs are doing more kicking than they did last year, and show a decided improvement in this point. The passing is not quite...
There were no entries for the 100 and 220 yards dashes, open only to members of the foot-ball team. A one-fifth of a mile hurdle race, open to all, was therefore substituted for these two events, and was very amusing, there being about fifty starters. It was won by Morris...
...freshmen defeated the Roxbury foot-ball team Saturday. Neither side succeeded in making any touch-downs, but the freshmen won the game by two beautifully kicked goals from the field...
...Yale university crew have begun to take short practice pulls three days in a week. Some of the men have yielded to the loud cry for the crew men to play on the foot-ball team, and Captain Hull, H. E. Folsom, and W. H. Hyndman are now practising. There is no little criticism, however, by those who fear that the risk of accident to them endangers Yale's boating chances next year...