Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman eleven is to be congratulated on the splendid victory they won over Yale Saturday, a victory which is a credit to themselves and to the college. The team played sharply and brilliantly and won the game solely upon its merits...
...captain and the eleven have the thanks of the college for their hard and conscientious work and for the brilliant victory they have won. The class may well feel proud of sending such a team to the field, and we wish them all success in their future contests...
...Yale freshman eleven are St ping at the Tremont House in Boston...
...from Princeton, they would have won from Harvard as readily, or more so. What Yale tries to make out by no means follows. It will go on record that the Yale team was enabled to win the championship of 1888 by forfeit, the Harvard faculty refusing to allow the eleven to play at New York, and the Yale management refusing to allow its players to go elsewhere. It has always been supposed that a standard of sportsmanship exists among the college men, different from that which prevails among the professionals, but such a feeling has not been observable in this...
...championship won, as has been the case this year, well and good. It was like the claim of forfeit when a team had been unable to reach its destination on account of the breaking down of a train, or a detention of some nature. Harvard has a good eleven. The Harvards played their game with the Princetons on the grounds of the latter, and not on neutral territory, as was the case with the Princeton and Yale game. There was therefore no chance of comparison under equal conditions. If Yale felt as sure of defeating Harvard as it pretended...