Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heavy blow for Jim the trainer that Yale refused to compete with us in a track meeting. He expected to get even on the foot-ball score...
...YALE AND PRINCETON FOOT-BALL MATCH.Yesterday the long-expected foot-ball match, for the championship of the American colleges, was played by the representatives of Yale and Princeton in the presence of at least thirty thousand spectators, assembled in the new coliseum. A more sanguinary and exciting struggle has seldom taken place, and the list of killed and wounded reflects great credit upon both colleges. The match was played in accordance with the Roughby rules, one of which provides that the clubs used by the players shall each be four feet long, made of the best oak, loaded with lead...
...training of the University nine (at Yale) up to within three weeks of taking the field will consist of boxing, only. - [N. H. Union.] Are we to have a repetition next spring, of the scenes on the Yale foot ball field last fall...
...meeting of delegates from Racine, Evanston, and the University, a Western College Foot-Ball League was formed. Madison will enter the league by correspondence. In the list of officers selected, F. W. Davenport holds the office of president. Racine and Evanston have each a vice-president. Each member of the league has two directors. Those of the University are B. P. Entle, medic., and R. M. Dott, lit. The constitution of the Eastern league was adopted, with the changes necessary to adopt it to the West. A series of games will be played early the coming season, and the winner...
...full dress. But, dear Mr. Editor, don't you think it is awful to flirt? I never flirt when any one I know is watching me, because I really think it's wicked. I've bet a pair of gloves that Harvard would beat Yale next summer in the foot-race. I've bet with Pinky Ashton, whose brother is a Yale soph do you think...