Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of the Yale Divinity School have been assigned to assist the various pastors of the city in their mission. Fifty-three have been assigned to Congregationalist pastors, eleven to Methodist, twelve to Baptist, and a number to other denominations. A committee of two from each class have the matter in charge, among whom are Peabody and Means, graduates of Harvard last year. Of the Senior class nine are already preaching and most of the undergraduates are engaged in out side work...
Three of the members of the cricket eleven are on the American team which sails for England early in the summer, and they will probably be unable to play on the college team. last year the cricket eleven received hearty and financial support from the university, and the Pennsylvanian is strongly urging the formation of a cricket association which shall take the entire management of the team...
...article in the February number of Outing, which has just appeared, is Part II of "American College Athletics." R. M. Hurd is the contributor, and has written about Yale University. After a brief general history of early athletics at Yale, he takes up in detail the records of the elevens, the crews, the nines, and the track athletes, since 1876, and the lawn tennis players since 1883. The illustrations include full-page photographs of the champion crew and nine of '88 and the '87 eleven. There are also some interesting instantaneous photographs of hurdle jumping and pole vaulting. "A Russian...
...candidates for the football eleven of Boston College are practising daily in the gymnasium...
...following is a list of the other candidates and their former athletic experience: Galbreath, '91, weight 177 pounds, is an athlete of powerful frame and the best of judgment. He played center rush on the eleven last season, and has trained with the oar. J. Ford, '90, is a man of great endurance and has a cool head, is raw at rowing, but is expected to make one of the strongest men in the boat. T. E. Clark, '90, is a successful anchor in tug-of-war contests. A. W. Marston, '92, is showing up among the best...