Word: eleven
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Yesterday's victory in football was the first one a freshman team has won over Exeter for five years. Ninetytwo's eleven played with a great deal of snap, and the improvement in team work was apparent. The backs played a strong rushing game, and the rushers blocked and tackled much better than usual. Exeter was obliged to play two substitute half-backs, and to that circumstance may be attributed in part the poor showing Exeter made. Immediately after the kick-off, the freshmen began forcing the ball towards Exeter's line and Brooks soon made a touchdown. No goal...
...Phillips Andover eleven defeated the Tech eleven by a score of 10 to 0 last Wednesday...
...candidates for the freshman team have now been in training five weeks; but the eleven that has been turned out does not promise to make even a respectable showing against Yale. To whatever cause the poorness of the eleven is due, whether to the inefficiency of the captain, or to the lack of interest among the men, one thing is very sure; unless a speedy imorovement takes place, whether by the training of new men or by the better work of the old ones, the team can look with confidence to a disgraceful defe at at the hands...
None of the men on the eleven have learned to do with even a little success, one of the four things that are the elements of the game-blocking, getting through, tackling and dropping on the ball. Not one of the men watch the ball, and with scarcely an exception, they jump at a man's head in tackling, instead of taking him low. The backs, when they look for a hole in the line-which is not often,-can seldom find one. The men play without a bit of snap or earnestness. They seem to think they can play...
...Princeton football team is now made up as follows: Rushers, S. C. Hodge, '88, Cook, '89, Irvine, '88, George, '89, (centre), Janeway, '90, Cowan, '88, (captain), Boviard, '89; quarter back, Channing '90; half-backs, Mowry, '92 and Black, '92; full-back, Ames, '90. Seven of last year's eleven are back in college and playing on the team, including three '88 men who are taking postgraduate courses. The men are heavier than last year's and are working very hard. The Princeton speaks very confidently of Princeton's chances for winning the championship...