Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Corbett, captain of the Cambridge High school eleven, will enter Harvard next fall...
Last Thursday, only members of the university 11 and their friends were admitted to the Yale athletic field. The object was to give the eleven an opportunity of practising tricks without being watched by outsiders...
...overwhelming defeat of Saturday was a great disappointment. The Faithful work of the eleven had led us to expect a victory and the beginning of a new era in Harvard athletics. During the first half and part of the second half our team played a wonderful game and victory seemed almost certain. The superior endurance of the Princeton team then began to count and during the last half hour the game was too one-sided to be interesting. The cause of the defeat was quite evident. Our men had not been trained to play a hard game for an hour...
Though the championship is lost we must not give up hope of winning second place by defeating Yale. After all, the greatest interest centres in the game which is yet to be played. The college must not relax the enthusiasm with which it has hitherto so loyally supported the eleven. A repetition of Saturday's cheering will greatly enhance our chances of winning. The eleven has proved that it can play a strong game and with the practice of another week, we may still look for a victory next Saturday...
...article entitled "Training the Yale Eleven" by H. W. Beecher was published in the supplement of the last number of Harper's Weekly. The writer gives a detailed account of the manner of picking out and training the men and explains the various duties that are incumbent upon each candidate for the team. He says that by training not only is perfection in physical condition sought after, but also team play. The first is easily attained but the difficulty lies in the latter. The idea of brilliant individual play must first be eliminated; they must realize that eleven men working...