A cricket match was played in Blickling Park between elevens of the Blickling and Norwich clubs, and was won by the former.
A cricket match was played on the ice on Scoulton Mere, between two selected elevens from the parish of Hingham.
The defensive work of both teams was weak, and when once one of the elevens secured the ball, they were pretty sure of carrying it down the field for a touch-down, unless they lost it on a fumble.
Both elevens were weak at tackle, and most of the plays were shoved through here on both sides.
Only," chimed in Riddell, "these county teams don't stick to the same elevens as regularly as a school does.
And under the eyes of thousands of eager spectators, the rival elevens took the places assigned to them to await the signal for play.
The cheering and the playing of the band still continued when the two elevens again lined up for play during the last five minutes of the game.
Wherever these signals had been received by captains of other school teams, it soon appeared, these captains of rival elevens had punctually mailed them back.
Dutch elevens have visited England, and English elevens have crossed to Holland, the most important visit being that of the gentlemen of the M.
As the teams lined up Neil Durant said, loud enough for the whole two elevens to hear, "Now comes our turn," and the fight for a decision began anew.
Take two elevens in training and let them play a game; there will be no one hurt in all probability.
One team, in order to give one of the larger college elevens a stiff practice game, had put in the field two or three ringers.
Like Graves, Bunker in spite of his great weight, was fast enough to play in the backfield in those years when Army elevens were relying so much upon terrific power.
After nearly an hour's discussion of the rules two elevens were formed and there was time for some play.
What we want to find out is whether there are brains and muscle enough in town to get three football elevens together.
The elevens have been so equal that neither University is ever more than one or two victories ahead of its opponent.
In most Elevens there are one or two men with whom good roundhand bowling is almost thrown away.
Dave, and was off to join his Varsity mates as the two elevenslined up again for kick-off.
Then followed a terrific struggle between two powerful lines--both elevenssettling down to work with the first hysteria of battle over.
It was estimated that some fifty thousand fans must be denied the spectacle of Coach John Brown's last team meeting the tartar of all football elevensin Delmar.
A buzz of excitement went through the crowded stands as the Pomeroy and Grinnell elevens lined up for kick-off and the player numbered "26" in Grinnell's backfield was pointed out to be Mack Carver.
And newspapers throughout the land, devoting columns to his eulogy, extolled the unbroken string of victories which his teams at Naylor had scored over the most powerfulelevens in the country.
Candidates for the team as well as for the class elevens will soon be called for.
Several elevens were tentatively formed, and taken to different parts of the field to play against each other.
Why, Yale's and Harvard's elevens combined could not stop his rushes, then.
The versatile youth, having just composed a song with which to encourage Bannister elevens in the future, was reading it aloud, when his mind was torpedoed by a most startling thought.
Let me get an inspiration, and then Thor will once again gently but firmly thrust entire football elevens down the field before him!
To-morrow will be a final big practice, when the elevens for the `A to M versus N to Z' match on the 25th will be chosen.
The following are the two elevens [and here the list followed].
State sporting authorities began to figure the Canton-Trumbull encounter a mythical championship battle providing both elevenswon the remaining games on their schedules.
The campus was lined with students and returning alumni, some of the latter having come hundreds of miles just to see the unbeaten elevens clash.
Both elevens left the field, physically fit and in good spirits, but dead tired.
Over the field the two Elevens spread, while cheer after cheer met in mid-field, clashed, and rolled upward to the blue.
The first and second elevens were to play their first real game of the season at four o'clock, and meanwhile the players were down for a stiff thirty minutes of practice.
The first and second elevens were lined up for the first time, and Joel was placed at left half in the latter.
The two elevens were trotting out on the field once more, and Joel stood up in the hope that Blair might see him and decide to take him on.
The Army and Navy elevenswere lining up to start play.
Why, fellows, this year the Navy has one of the bestelevens in its history.
So many Australian elevens have come and gone since then, that it is difficult now to imagine the intense interest and excitement which was felt in English cricket circles at this epoch-making event.
What could be more natural than the rivalry between the great professional sides—I am writing of the ‘seventies—of Yorkshire and Nottingham, and of both with Lancashire, and of the amateur elevens of Middlesex and Gloucestershire?
Whatever may be the reader’s verdict on this vexed point, no one can deny that few elevens have ever contained so many brilliant performers in their own departments of the game.
The unusual wealth of bowlers of this description in the English elevens at this time made this weakness especially noticeable.
Nottinghamshire is a standing exception to the rule that great elevens are the outcome of great incomes.
But they were not left unassisted, for the masterlyelevens from the south began to come among them, and taught them many things, no doubt, both by example and by precept.
The powers of batting which were to make him so useful a member of most of the Australian elevens of the next few years were not yet much in evidence.
Lord Frederick Beauclerk took down an eleven that appears to have beaten three elevens combined of the Norfolk folk, and that in a single innings.
They combined elevens apparently, and played twenty-two against an eleven of England, which beat them in a single innings.
Both elevens played a strong game, and everything would undoubtedly have passed off to the satisfaction of all concerned if Referee Hall had been more capable than he showed himself on the field.
The score will probably not be so large day after to-morrow, for the two elevens seem to be more evenly matched.
Then some one pulled a blanket over him and he was camped among the substitutes, peering out at the gridiron where already the two elevenswere sweeping back and forth in vigorous signal drill.
Another gain at Banks' end and suddenly from the elevens across the field the figure of the captain rose and waved a signal.
The elevenswent in to lunch, as the crowd poured over the ground, laughing and chattering.
The Elevens have finished lunch, and are mixing with the crowd.
To their flaming senses the ball appeared to be lying, a huge blurred sphere, upon the muddy grass; and the Elevens were stupidly staring at it.
There is no duller or more depressing spectacle in this world than that of two elevens waiting in the pavilion for the rain to stop.
The Elevenslunched together in the pavilion, but the rest of the party returned to the house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elevens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
