Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appreciable advantage. At last a fumble by one of Andover's backs allowed Stickney to secure the ball with a clear field before him. He started for Andover's goal line hotly pursued by Bliss, who overtook and downed him about five yards from the line. The Andover eleven now rallied strongly and prevented Exeter's scoring the coveted touchdown. Four times did the Exeter rushers hurl themselves in vain against the Andover line, and then having failed to advance the ball the requisite five yards, forfeited it to Andover. Andover now tried the old "criss cross" trick, and Bliss...
...American" foot-ball eleven made up of college graduates, has been formed in Chicago. The players are as follows: Rushers.- Farwell, Yale; Lockwood, Columbia; Ives, Harvard; Carse, Williams; Bickham, Princeton; Lamb (captain). Yale; Harlan, Princeton; Hubbard, Harvard; Hamlin, Yale; Waller, Princeton. Quarter-back.- B. Hamlin, Yale. Half-backs.- Eldridge, Yale; Crawford, Yale; Cowling. Harvard. Full-back.- Lyman, Yale...
...Porter advanced it to the five-yard line where it went to Wesleyan for foul holding. Wesleyan advanced the ball to the twenty-five yard line where Harvard getting it, forced it by rushes of Trafford and davis to the fifteen-yard line and Sears made a touchdown eleven minutes after play was called. Harding kicked a goal. Wesleyan forced back ten yards from the centre of the field by sharp work of Cumnock, punted. Harvard had the ball down on the forty-yard line and Porter by a good rush advanced it to Wesleyan's twenty-yard line where...
...book has been placed at Leavitt and Peince's for the signature of those who ??? to accompany the eleven to Princeton next Saturday. It seems almost needless for us to urge every man who possibly can, to go with the team; but we feel so positively that the success of the eleven in the contest with Princeton will depend largely on the support the college gives it, that we can not help saying an earnest word in hopes that it may influence those who are levitating whether to go or no. The team has been very unfortunate in losing valuable...
...candidates for the freshman eleven, meet on Jarvis at 3 o'clock sharp...