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Updated: June 25, 2025
He made me sit and eat beside him at the afternoon dinner of the elevens, and sent platefuls of food to the girl, where she was allowed to squat; and said he, 'You and I'll tie a knot, and be friends for life. I replied, 'With pleasure. We nodded over a glass of ale.
Both elevens had made changes. For Erskine, Graham, immense of bulk but slow, had replaced Stowell at center, and Reardon was in Foster's position. Robinson had put in new men at left tackle, right end, and full-back. The game went on again. Devoe got the kick-off and brought the ball back to his thirty yards; but he was injured when thrown and Bell took his place.
"In the course of his college career he returned each summer to his home in Great Barrington and quietly resumed his work on the farm. "After graduation he was a remarkably successful football coach at Cornell University, and was also a vast help in preparing Harvard elevens.
At first sight of the visitors, some of the Navy people began to have their doubts about victory. The Hannistons surely were "bulky." In size and age, the visitors were as formidable as any of the college elevens. Many of the midshipmen, too, recalled what they had heard Waite say at table. It seemed little wonder that the popular odds were against the middies.
Jane once found an opportunity to fill her apron with a quantity of fine apples, called fameuses, which came in her way, and, hastening up to the sleeping-room, hid them under my bed. Then, coming down, she informed me, and we agreed to apply for leave to make our elevens, as it is called.
To-day the throng of candidates had dwindled down to some forty, of whom perhaps twenty were new men. The first and second elevens were lined up for the first time, and Joel was placed at left half in the latter. An hour of slow practice followed.
At the conclusion of the day's cricket, all those who had been playing in the four elevens which the school put into the field against the old boys, together with the school choir, were entertained by the headmaster to supper in the Great Hall.
And under the eyes of thousands of eager spectators, the rival elevens took the places assigned to them to await the signal for play. Although there might be changes at any time during the progress of a fiercely contested game, the line-up at the start was as follows: COLUMBIA. Comfort. Allen, Captain. West. Wallace. Shadduck. Oakes. Harper. Bird. Daly. Eastwick. Morris. R.E. R.T. R.G. Center.
Marie hitched up the left half of his suspenders and began his old plaint: "Think of that old geezer, old enough to " "Oh, I don't know," broke in one of the listeners. "It doesn't take much to see sevens , and elevens. Even Pop " "I don't mean that," lied Marie. "I wasn't thinking of his luck last night. I was thinking of the remarkable manner in which a man of his age conducts that morgue.
In a moment more the Army signal was being called out crisply. The whistle sounded, and both elevens were in instant action. But the cadets failed to get through. The middies were driving them back. In sheer desperation the cadet with the ball turned and dropped behind the Army goal line -a safety. All at once the Navy band chopped out a few swift measures of triumphant melody.
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