Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cambridge has won the annual Rug-by-union foot-ball match with Oxford for the third successive year, by a score of a goal and two touchdowns to nothing...
There is a feeling at Oxford that cricket and foot-ball tend to weaken the crew by drawing away men who would other wise try for a place in the shell. The average weight of the Cambridge trial eights is but 158 lbs., but the material is superior to that which formed last year's victorious eight. Cambridge also has three old men in training, and there is a feeling among the wearers of the light blue that Cambridge will, as last year, row a winning race...
There has been formed in Boston an organization for playing foot-ball according to Association rules. Enough players to form two elevens have been heard from, and the name of Boston Rovers has been decided on. Many of the members have had considerable practice on English teams and have played at Oxford and Cambridge Universities...
...statistics in the Globe show an increase of forty per cent, at Yale in the last seven years as compared with an increase of twenty-one per cent, at Harvard. During the same period, out of the thirty-one contests between Yale and Harvard in base-ball, foot-ball, rowing and track athletics, Yale has won twenty-one times, Harvard ten. While these facts may show nothing more than a coincidence, it seems to us to be a more reasonable conclusion to draw from these facts that Yale's victories have been one of the things, at least, that have...
...order to economize, the Boat Club must do business on a cash basis; but the committee is tied hand and foot if it has not enough cash on hand, as is the case at present. As a consequence, many plans will be delayed and chance of success put in danger...