Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When college opened in New Haven this fall, the outlook for the football season was certainly disheartening. During the summer Capt. Rodgers had been taken ill with typhoid fever and his continued weakness necessitated the appointment of a temporary captain in his stead. Benjamin, last year's halfback, accordingly took charge of the men. Of the '96 eleven only Rodgers, Benjamin, Chadwick, Chamberlin, Conner and Hine returned this fall, and it was thought that only four of these men would be able to play. There was a good deal of very raw material to work upon but no stars...
...Latimer Seaver 1900, Bigelow; Clarence James Smerdon '99, Burr; Vine Harold Smith '98, Hodges; Arthur Cushing Spalding '99, Warren H. Cudworth; Eric Arthur Starbuck '98, Saltonstall; Chester Odiorne Swain 1900, George Emerson Lowell; Charles Marshall Underwood 1900, Bowditch; Donald Fraser Urquhart '99, William Samuel Eliot; Walter Gustavus Waitt 1900, Benjamin D. Greene; Jacob Warsaw 1900, Rebecca A. Perkins; Louis Lincoln Whitney '98, Bowditch; George Albin Whittemore 1900, Sales...
...number of candidates behind the line is also very large. De Saulles and Stoddard are at present playing at quarter. Chamberlin, last year's centre, is being played at half-back and has so far done excellent work in that position. The other candidates are Kiefer, Corwin, Hine and Benjamin, the acting captain. At full-back, McBride seems to be almost a fixture...
...Benjamin Oliver Foster, Classical Philology...
...Benjamin Shores Merigold, Chemistry...