Word: footed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Post of yesterday contained a long letter from John Codman 2d, on the foot ball controversy. We quote the most pertinent passages...
...first half of the Princeton-Harvard game it was an even thing-the sky was blue, the sun shone, the Harvard cannon boomed and everything was lovely-everybody was happy and cried, "The finest game of foot ball ever seen!" The second half, the sky clouds and lowers, the sun disappears the cannon ceases to boom, and the complaints of slugging, unfair play, and Ames resound and increase with Princeton's score, till at the close Princeton is pronounced a brute, a knave, a liar. The Princeton players were, heavier men and older men than Harvard and could stand...
...Codman's letter on the foot ball controversy contains some criticisms of Harvard's recent action which are undoubtedly just, yet as a whole the spirit and tone of his remarks show such a misunderstanding of our present attitude that a formal reply seems necessary...
...Harvard was superior in blocking and several times Yale was compelled to make four downs in succession without gain although the ball was within a few yards of Harvard's goal. Umpire Peace was very strict about off-side play and at important junctures in the game when every foot counted Harvard lost fifteen yards for off-side play by the rushers. Harvard out-kicked Yale and Trafford's punting was one of the features of the game. Harvard made most of her gains by a series of short quick rushes around the ends, through the center, and between...
...club shoot. Harvard vs. Yale at Springfield on the grounds of the Springfield Gun club. Foot Ball. Harvard vs. Yale at Hampden park, Springfield at 2.15 p. m. E. C. Peace, umpire. SUNDAY...