Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Globe of Wednesday contains a letter from Princeton in which the crippled condition of the eleven is commented upon and lamented. It says that the excitement attendant upon the Harvard-Princeton game of next Saturday is very high. The backing of the team on the field while practicing has noticeably increased of late, and all good plays have elicited generous applause...
...closely contested game was played on the Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon between the Cambridge High School and the freshman eleven. Cambridge had the strongest team in the field while the freshmen were obliged to play two substitutes. The only point of the first half was a touchdown for '92 by Wrenn. No goal. During this half the ball was kept in Harvard's territory most of the time and Cambridge did better team work than Harvard...
...four hundred students at a foot-ball game played in a drenching rain must have been a matter of surprise to any stranger who might have been present at Saturday's game. In no better way can the college show its appreciation of the praiseworthy efforts of the eleven than by its action on Saturday; and the enthusiasm thus shown under the greatest drawbacks, as far as physical comfort is concerned, must have been extremely gratifying to the members of the team. Still, we desire to add one word to those who are still undecided whether or no to accompany...
...that the election is a thing of the past, all eyes are fixed upon the eleven, and its work is eagerly watched in these last practice games preceding the struggle for the championship. There is great excitement in regard to the outcome of the games with Yale and Harvard, and foot-ball is once more the topic of interest as is usual at this period of the year. Friends of the eleven have had their hopes slightly dampened by the play of the team in the Wesleyan game, and the injury of Hodge, end rush, resulting therefrom. It is decidedly...
...College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College, Ohio. Among petitions granted was one which shows in a marked degree the difference in liberally of spirit as regards athletics between the Harvard and Princeton trustees. The petition was from the Princeton Eleven asking permission to play Yale in New York on Thanksgiving Day in case the Harvard Faculty refused to allow the Harvard Eleven that permission. The trustees, with no dissenting voice, granted this permission on condition that the Princeton Faculty assents...