Word: footings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...winner of baseball in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association will hold the presidency of the league for '94, and the winner of the foot ball the vice-presidency...
...Manager of the Freshman Foot Ball team has submitted the report of the receipts and expenditures of the team. They are as follows...
...amend Article 5 of the by-laws by adding to the list of championship events, the three mile run. It will be proposed to amend Article 29 of the Laws of Athletics by striking out the sentence which is numbered 2 and which reads "lifting from the ground the foot nearest the circumference of the circle while the hammer is in hand" and by inserting directly after the sentence reading "the hammer shall be thrown from a circle seven feet in diameter," the following sentence, "the contestant may assume any position he wishes in making an attempt...
...dash, 9 feet limit, was very close and exciting. In the final heat were; W. F. Baker, '93; D. M. Casey, B. U. A. A., S. A. Coombs, B. A. A., M. Ladd, '94; H. Wheelwright, '94; and A. B. Straight of Brown University. Baker 93, won finishing a foot ahead of Straight, who was about the same distance ahead of Ladd '94. Time...
...last number of Harper's Weekly Walter Camp has an article on professionalism in college athletics. Mr. Camp says that professionalism is certainly gaining ground in all athletic sports and especially in colleges. He is in sympathy with the action taken by the Intercollegiate Foot-ball Association, and recommends even stronger legislation. He suggests the plan of debarring every man from playing on university teams during his first year at college. Though this might pre vent a certain amount of professionalism, it seems unjust that anyone coming to college with an honest purpose should not be allowed to represent...