Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee from the British Foot-ball Club of New York, composed of Charles Clapperton, captain; James Rankine, C. Harvey, O. D. Inman, E. H. Moeran, and F. S. Watts, met representatives of the American colleges at Delmonico's Friday night to consider the methods of playing the game. Princeton was represented by E. C. Pierce, Captain, and J. S. Harlan; Yale by Walter Camp, Captain, and Emmet Williams, and Harvard by H. M. Manning, Captain, and H. G. Leavitt. A resolution, presented by Mr. Rankine, was adopted that the Inter-collegiate Foot-ball Association should be asked to take into...
...seats on Holmes Field, mentioned by the Crimson, because of the non-payment of the builder, is truly deplorable. We can not believe that the threat is serious, or that, if so, the college would allow it to be put into execution. Certainly enough generous supporters of the foot-ball team will be found to liquidate this debt for them. Furthermore, we trust it will not be found impossible, on account of the cost, to adopt the Crimson's plan for the erection of a ladies' grand stand with some suitable covering or awning. The adoption of some similar plan...
Wesleyan Athletic Association is to have a new one-fifth mile track around the foot-ball ground. It is not yet decided whether to enter the inter-collegiate contests at the Polo grounds, New York...
...Sargent, in comparing the value of different sports, places foot-ball at the head of the list...
...University of Pennsylvania objects because of Yale's exclusiveness in the matter of accepting challenges from colleges other than Harvard for university races, while she is very ready to accept them for foot-ball or base-ball games. At New Haven there is considered to be a possibility of the Harvard-Yale race this year falling through; then the challenge from Pennsylvania might be accepted. The Pennsylvanians desire the establishment of another inter-collegiate rowing association...