Word: bremner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ernest W. W. Coolidge and Sam Winslow, Harvard ex-captains, were present, while ex-captain Bremner of Yale witnessed his nine's defeat from the Yale bench...
...referee,-; umpire, W. Bradford. Yale vs. Harvard, referee,-; umpire, A. Baker, or L. Riggs. Yale vs. U. of Pa., referee, W. P. Harvey; umpire, A. Baker. Yale vs. Wesleyan, referee,-; umpire, A. Baker or T. Harris. Harvard vs. U. of Pa., referee,-; umpire, W. B. Douglass or S. Bremner. Wesleyan vs. U. of Pa., referee, W. C. Camp; umpire, J. A. Hodge, Jr. Princeton vs. Harvard, referee, W. C. Camp; umpire, Terry or Twombly. Princeton vs. Yale. referee, W. A. Brooks; umpire, Frank Houston or F. Fisk...
There is some talk of getting up a base-ball nine among the members of the Medical School. They certainly have a good battery to start with, in Nichols and Bremner of Yale. It would be a good thing for the 'Varsity nine if such a scheme were carried out. Practice games could be played with the nine after the fashion of the Yale consolidated nine...
Besides the regular delegates there were a number of base-ball men seen about the corridors, who rendered valuable professional assistance. Chief among those from Yale were noticed Bremner and Badger, who have filled important positions on the Yale nines of the past. F. W. Smith, '86, and James A. Frye, captain of the champion CRIMSON nine, were present also. Representatives from Spalding of Chicago and Reach of Philadelphia advocated the advantages of their respective firms...
...Haven, on Monday night, another mass meeting was called to decide whether or no the committee's adverse report should be accepted. It was accepted almost unanimously. All the Yale graduates who were consulted on the subject - among them Wyllys Terry, Walter Camp, George Adee, Walter Badger, and Sam Bremner - were opposed to the scheme; and their opposition seems to have converted all those who had previously inclined the other way. Like the chicken who was convinced that the sky was falling, when a rose leaf dropped upon her back, the dim suspicion of an "alliance" between Harvard and Princeton...