Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negroes of Montgomery, Ala., the week dawned (as one of them put it) "darker than a thousand midnights." For more than eleven months, in a mass movement combining Christian fervor with Gandhi-like passive resistance, they had mounted and sustained in the "Cradle of the Confederacy" an almost total boycott of the city's segregated buses (TIME, April 2 ). Led by a handful of well-educated and young Negro leaders-notably by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 27, pastor of a local Baptist church-they had efficiently put together and operated a car pool of some...
...Harvard's Superb Machine Gives Yale's Eleven Players Worst Beating in the Blue's 44 Years of Football," an eight-column headline in the Boston Globe announced after the 1915 game...
Dunster will play Berkley College this afternoon. Operating out of a T formation, the Dunster eleven often switches to a single wing. George Douse, quarterback with two years of House football experience, and halfback Art Martin, with three years of play, have been the mainstays in Dunster's backfield. The team held a light, informal practice session late yesterday afternoon in preparation for today's game. The Funsters ended the season in seventh place in the inter-House league...
Four years ago, this writer saw a very proud and confident quarterback named Dean Loucks lead an undefeated White Plains High School eleven to a 46-3 defeat of its traditional rival, New Rochelle, which was having its worst season in some six years...
Ackerman, troubled the last two years with broken collarbones, is very healthy this year, as proven by his 42 points. He is the fullback, and is used mainly on the fourth down three-yard plunges. Ward, who tied the Yale touchdown record with eleven last season, has six so far and leads the team in rushing with 590 yards. McGill's average of 6.6 yards per carry is the best, however...