Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eleven members of the senior class at the Roxbury Latin School will enter Harvard next year...
...will doubtless be the cause of inconvenience for the men who live at a considerable distance from Cambridge. Especially will this be true at Christmas when everybody wants to go home; but it would not be worth while for many men to do so for a vacation of only eleven or twelve days...
About twenty-five men are out daily practicing for the 'varsity eleven...
...management of the university eleven think that kicking here at Harvard can be improved. The matter has been talked over with the Boston and New York graduates and they are of the same opinion. They have generously subscribed money for a challenge cup, valued at $250, to be competed for each fall, for ten years, and finally to go to the man having the best record in that time. The conditions regarding the kicking and the cup will be published later in the season. The cup is open to every member of the university and every afternoon, except Saturday...
...special request we reprint an article describing the provisions which have been made by New York and Boston graduates, through the football management, for a challenge cup for kicking. It is proposed to make every effort to train better backs for the eleven, and the challenge cup is offered by these graduates, all of whom are deeply interested, as an extra inducement to all men in the University who consider themselves at all likely to become good football kickers...