Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale and Princeton will play their foot-ball matches with Harvard this year on Holmes field, instead of on some grounds outside of Cambridge...
...inter-collegiate foot-ball convention, held in New York, it was decided that, beginning with next year, no player should be allowed to continue on a team more than five years. This, while in the nature of a compromise, gives a trifling advantage over the present arrangement to colleges having no professional schools into which their good players may go on leaving college...
...annual business meeting, gymnasium meetings and track meetings on Jarvis. The special athletic clubs to which freshmen are admitted are the Bicycle Club (open to all who own bicycles), the Cricket Club, and the Lacrosse Association. All students of the college (freshmen included) compose the Base-ball Club, the Foot-ball Association and the Boat Club. Trials of candidates to the Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality are held every fall, to which freshmen are admitted. The Christian Brethren and St. Paul's Society are religious organizations to which freshmen are admitted. For a fuller account of all organizations...
...foot-ball delegates from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia met Saturday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Messrs. Camp and Tompkins represented Yale; Mr. Cabot, Harvard; Messrs. Peace and Morgan, Princeton; Messrs. Morgan and Fisburn, Columbia. The games with Yale were settled upon as follows: Yale vs. Columbia, Nov. 18, at New Haven; Harvard vs. Yale. Nov. 22, at Cambridge; Princeton vs. Yale, Thanksgiving day at Polo Grounds. Princeton tried to push a motion through the convention to restrict the number of rushers in a scrimmage to six of each team, and not to allow the half-backs to come nearer...
...Amherst Student wants an Inter-Collegiate Press Association. It says: "Our inter-collegiate base-ball and foot-ball associations are established on a firm basis, and the value of them is obvious. But the department of college life represented by our papers is just as important as our athletic interests, and to its highest development a union is just as essential...