Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what they were. But their being in the association is worse than useless, it has been harmful. Their votes in Ames' favor lost you the Thanksgiving Day game, and now their votes will prevent this needed reform as to semi-professional graduate players and graduate students "for the foot ball season only...
...have all been guilty in the past-Princeton perhaps least of all. I don't blame them so much. They found they had an unusual number of available graduates players, and they did what they think we have all been doing in persuading them to return for the foot ball season. The men are stuck there for the year, now, though...
...Rhodes, '91, who has been elected captain of the Yale eleven for next year has had considerable experience as a foot ball player. He played on his class team the first year he went to Exeter in the fall of '85. The next year he was one of the best men on the Academy eleven which defeated Andover 26 to nothing. In his freshman year at Yale he was first substitute on the 'varsity being called out to play in both the Harvard and the Princeton games. Last year he was tackle on the Yale team and played a fine...
...dinner to the foot ball eleven tonight deserves to be a success and the present indications are that it will be. Hon. William E. Russell will open the discussion of athletics and it will be taken up by Samuel E. Winslow and other prominent graduates and undergraduates. Samuel Dexter will preside and W. H. Rand, '88, will officiate as toastmaster. Music will be furnished by Baldwin's Cadet Band...
...letter of a Harvard graduate which we reprint from the Yale News offers a possible and perhaps a timely solution of the foot ball difficulty. The proposition made is briefly as follows: That Yale shall withdraw from the foot ball league, at the same time make a proposition to Princeton that she shall withdraw, with the added stipulation that if Princeton does not comply Yale will see no further obstacle to the formation of a dual league with Harvard. The plan as it is here proposed is at least a fair one, and leaves an honorable opportunity for the three...