Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Manchester, the present captain of Wesleyan's foot-ball eleven, intends to become a missionary...
...nothing new need be said. Stagg and Dann are without doubt the best college battery in the country. The Princeton trainer when seen at the foot-ball game and asked about base-ball prospects, replied: "We have a cage now and will put out as good a nine as possible, but we will never be able to best Yale as long as Stagg and Dann are in college." Harvard's principal anxiety seems to be that she hasn't a pitcher to equal Stagg. Spencer at first and McConkey at second base gained a reputation for their excellent work last...
...week are quite enough for a player. The best ones are all professionals, and get paid by the match. I have got L2 for a match when it was a big one, but L1 is good wages for a game. And do you know, the women think foot-ball is a great thing. If there is a match on Saturday afternoon, they can get their husbands to go, and then they are not spending their week's wages in drink. They can only spend the six-pence it costs to see the game...
When I asked the English foot ball expert something about the number of teams he pulled a weekly Birmingham paper out of his pocket and showed me a full page devoted to summaries of games that had been played since the issue of the previous week. There were clubs by the score, and the number gave one something of an idea of the interest in foot-ball in England...
...their hobby they have been joined by a number of athletes who are anxious to learn the game, besides a goodly number of old players who have come over from England and settled in Boston. They are anxious to meet all who would like to help put Association foot-ball on its feet here.- Globe...