Word: footings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Foot Ball Association...
...Foot Ball Association...
...full sympathy with the recent action of the Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association, and Harvard is ready to cooperate with Yale in an attempt to exclude the perpetual and the imported athlete, But many of our men think that these evils may be removed by another method, which is not open to the objection of disqualifying entire departments of the University...
...Second. Because such legislation will, if allowed to stand, check the healthy competition for places on foot-ball teams by restricting the area of competition, will thus decrease the present widespread interest in the game, detract largely from its character, and hamper its normal development as a university sport...
...captains of the Yale and Harvard crews. By this it will be seen that Yale proposes that the members of the two crews of this year shall be confined to the undergraduate department, with the same additional specifications that characterize the new rule in its application to intercollegiate foot ball. The action taken in this matter by Harvard is certainly a just and reasonable one which will meet the approval and support of every Harvard man, and one which, without doubt, may be considered to be prophetic. Whatever action Harvard takes in this matter must certainly not be retroaction...