Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ninety-three foot ball men will probably begin training for their class crew next week. Two hundred and ten men have signed for the foot ball dinner to be given Thursday night. The Princeton students held a celebration Monday night in honor of winning the championship...
...scrub teams composed of candidates for the freshman crew played a game of foot ball on Jarvis Saturday afternoon. Stone was captain of one eleven and Manly of the other. Stone's team...
...Boston Athletic Association foot ball team has played eight games this fall winning four, losing two and tying two. The team was defeated by the St. Marks School eleven, and by the Harvard second eleven. It defeated Roxbury Latin, Brown University, Harvard '93 and Technology, and tied West Roxbury and Trinity College, B. A. A. scored 88 points to their opponents' 41. The record is a good one considering the fact that the men are in business and have had very little time for practice. The success is in a large measure due to the exertions of Captain Peters. Next...
...election of Cumnock, '91, as captain of the eleven is from all points of view a fitting close to the foot-ball season. The energy and the skill which Captain Cumnock has shown has earned for him the confidence not only of the college but of the graduates as well. Harvard men may certainly feel that whatever mistakes may have been made will be corrected and whatever new ought to be done will be accomplished. The eleven is certainly in the best of hands, and the prospects for foot-ball in the future are better than they ever have been...
...number of editorials are devoted to the result of the mass-meeting of the 20th of last month. Considering the rotten condition of college athletics the action of Harvard in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Foot Ball association was not untimely, and if her motives are pure, she deserves great praise. The Advocate fears, however, that the students were influenced just as much by pique at a college which has just defeated Harvard as by any desire for purity in athletics. In regard to the withdrawal from the league, Harvard's position is "frank and honorable." The resolution to withdraw...