Word: elevens
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...same time, tackle Orville Tice and Fullback Tony Gianelly were named to the A.P.'s Ivy second team. But Yale, Dartmouth and Cornell led the poll, each placing two men on the first string eleven...
Princeton coach Charlie Caldwell named both Meigs and Gianelly to his "all-opponent eleven." Meigs also placed on a similar Bucknell squad...
This year there were more optimists in the Crimson camp than in any other recent year. Their logic was completely understandable--with victories over good Princeton and Yale teams and a tie against a strong Brown eleven in November last year there was no reason to suppose that a squad composed of the same backs and a strong line led by All-American candidate Bill Meigs would not win the Ivy League title. The experts all picked Yale and Cornell, but the Harvard man winked when the same experts said the Crimson was the "dark horse" of the league...
...even wetter Saturday the Crimson front wall pushed Columbia all over Baker's Field, and the score was 21-7 Harvard. But then the luck of Jordan ran out. Dartmouth upset the varsity 14-9, and on a beautiful Saturday in late October a very poor Bucknell eleven scored three times in the third period, was robbed of two downs by an absent-minded referee, and tied the varsity...
John M. Owseichik, center of the strong Yale line which helped to defeat the Crimson Saturday, was elected captain last night of next season's Eli eleven...