Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With the opening of the college term, Yale men are straining every nerve to turn out winning teams in spite of their losing many of the old men. The eleven played their first game on Saturday with Wesleyan. Thus far the strength of the team seems to be in the old players, Gill, P. G., left tackle; Heffelfinger, '91 S., left guard; Rhoades, '91, right tackle; Harvey, '91, McClung, '92, half-backs, and Graves; '91, full back. Of the new men the most promising who have been playing on the first eleven are, Moyle '91, left end; Newell '90, center...
Work at football has now begun in earnest, and the men are all playing with a great deal of vim and determination. The loss of several of last year's best players is a serious drawback on the prospects of an eleven for this year, and Captain Cumnock evidently sees that to win against Yale or Princeton, he must make the most of the men he has and try to develop good men by hard and conscientious work...
...Class elevens are to be formed this year and any good material which is discovered in the class games will be devoted to the 'varsity eleven. Candidates for all the class elevens began practice on the new field behind Divinity Hall yesterday...
There are fourteen candidates for the four backs on the freshman eleven...
...work at the observatory this summer has consisted chiefly in photographing spectra of stars with an eleven inch refracting telescope, and in experimenting with several new instruments. Among others, a fifteen-inch reflecting telescope, made and presented by the late Henry Draper, is worthy of mention. It is now being used for photographing stars...