Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fourteen candidates for the Cricket eleven gathered on the Cambridge Cricket club grounds for a practice game Saturday. Balch and Garrett chose sides and a close and exciting game was played, with a final score of 54 to 51 in favor of Balch's team. The best scores were made by Sullivan, 21, Garrett, 12 not out, and T. S. Lee, 11. Hewes did some good bowling, taking three wickets on three successive balls, and a total of five wickets for 17 runs. The crease proved very fair, much better than the one at Watertown...
Terry, Yale '85, is coaching the Yale eleven...
Printed schedules of the games to be played by the 'varsity eleven may be obtained at Leavitt and Pierces...
...Hunt then addressed the freshmen for a few moments and impressed upon them the necessity of encouraging their eleven by personal presence and active support. He said that they must play with much more vim and snap if they wished to beat the Yale freshmen. He suggested that a manager of the eleven be chosen, and Churchill, of Andover, was nominated for that position. Churchill resigned in favor of F. W. Moore of Andover who was elected by acclamation...
...motion. A little thoughtfulness in the matter can not be amiss, and that we may act consistently with our own expressions of enthusiasm, we must pay a little attention even to these matters of seeming minor importance. Not an obstacle should be left standing in the march of our eleven toward success...