Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Robt. Corwin, captain of last year's Yale foot-ball team, is at the head of a western grain elevator...
...Banjo Club have four engagements for the next three weeks. January 13 they go to Quincy with the Glee Club; Jan. 16, to Rockland; Jan. 21, to Jamaica Plain, at the performance of the Foot-light Club; February 1st, to Sharon...
...three years foot-ball has been undergoing a crisis which seriously threatened the game as a college sport. During this period Harvard was forbidden foot ball for a year and Princeton the opportunity to play on any but a college field...
...Holding in the line," always the most besetting of foot-ball sins and the most prolific cause of slugging in the past, has been kept in wonderful check this year, if any comparison be made with former years; but it may still be called a pet sin, and some of the points scored on the Polo Grounds this year were certainly accomplished through its agency. But fortunately the result of none of the games was apparently affected thereby...
...reviewing the growth of foot-ball the past season there is nothing more interesting than to notice the marked individuality of the style of play developed by Yale, Harvard and Princeton. And this is the more striking when we reflect that the more evenly are the teams becoming matched, the more distinct does the individuality of the play of each college appear. As yet, however, Yale and Princeton have more in common in their respective games than have either of them with Harvard...