Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Intercollegiate Foot-Ball Association, which was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York on Saturday evening, it decided by a vote of 3 to 1 that the play of Corbin, the Yale centre-rush in the Yale-Harvard game on Thanksgving Day, was perfectly proper and in accordance with the rules of the game. The point made by Harvard was that Corbin had picked up the ball and rushed with it before another man had touched it, thereby breaking rule 29, which says that the snapper back...
During the foot-ball season just ended, the Yale eleven scored 515 points to 12 for opponents. The record is as follows: Yale vs. Wesleyan, 38-0; Yale vs. Wesleyan, 106-0; Yale vs. Williams, 74-0; Yale vs. University of Pennsylvania, 50-0; Yale vs. Rutgers, 74-0; Yale vs. Crescents, 68-0; Yale vs. Wesleyan, 76-4: Yale vs. Princeton, 12-0; Yale vs. Harvard, 17-8. Wesleyan made the first touchdown it has ever secured against a Yale eleven...
...cricket would have more chance of acceptance were not this sport one of the few in which the New Haven institution as yet makes no pretensions to expertness. The great cricketing college is the University of Pennsylvania, which is very easily first in it. The laurels of base-ball, foot-ball, boating, tennis, or field and track athletics may pass from one institution to another during successive years, but no American college meets Pennsylvania on the wicket with much prospect of coming off victor. Haverford, Columbia and Harvard, however, often put fine elevens in the field, and it would probably...
HARVARD STUDENTS would do well to call at J. W. Brine's, 10 and 11 Harvard Row, and get their gymnasium and foot-ball outfits...
...number from each class represented in the Harvard, Yale and Princeton foot-ball teams were as follows: '88-18, '89-9, '90-3, '91-2.- Princetonian...