Word: footed
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...seems that roughness and brutality are as common in foot ball in England as between certain colleges in our own country. It is carried to such an extent that the present manner of playing has excited severe newspaper criticism. In comparing foot ball with other sports, one. English journal says: "We should hear of more casualities in the cricket field, for instance, if a sinewy fielder were allowed to trip up and throw a sparely-built batsman, or had the option of felling him to the ground by hurling a ball at his head; and there would be accidents innumerable...
...London Sportsman in an editorial, says: "A player should be absolutely prohibited from running full butt against an antagonist and dashing him to the ground, should he be unable to withstand the impact. Foot ball would prove none the less interesting were it to be shorn of its roughness and horse play...
...annual foot-ball match between Oxford and Cambridge was played Dec. 13. Oxford won by two goals...
With light foot beating down the dusty grass...
...trotted her little foot on the floor, and replied...