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Word: footing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...coming season, 1887-88, will be the 25th anniversary of the formation of the foot-ball association of England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/21/1887 | See Source »

...order that he may enter the college of his choice, free from all conditions. On an average the American schoolboy at this age is earnest, persevering, and sincere in his work. His dissipations, if wholesome out-of-door exercises can be called by that name, consist in base-ball, foot-ball and skating in their season. If we look at the German boy in these same years we discover the same earnestness about the work and the same dogged determination to pass the examinations which close the American schoolboy's career, but his dissipations are of a very different sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Teuton and the American Student. | 12/21/1887 | See Source »

...next number of the Tech will be a special Christmas edition, with extra illustrations, and probably a photogravure of the champion foot-ball team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/20/1887 | See Source »

Duane, '89, has been elected captain of the Technology foot-ball for next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/20/1887 | See Source »

...sorry to learn that the freshman foot-ball team is still heavily in debt, in spite of the fact that the eleven acquitted itself so splendidly in the contest with Yale. One of the first principles that should be inculcated in freshmen classes here is that all debts honorably acquired in providing for the necessities of athletic teams should be paid ungrudgingly, especially when a man has worked so hard and faithfully in bringing victory to a class whose enthusiasm, so intense at first, now seems to be ending in a feeble cloud of smoke. Up to the present time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1887 | See Source »

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