Word: captain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CAPTAIN NORTH has written to Cornell that it will not be practicable for the Freshmen to row a sixoared race, and refers them to his original challenge...
...Freshman asked the captain of the foot-ball team to lend the University suits for a game between...
...Freshmen seem to have given up all idea of boating, and their captain is training with the Freshman nine...
BOATING men find it interesting, these pleasant afternoons, to watch the work going on at the boat-house. The rowing-machines are first used by the Freshmen. Captain North has two eights in training. His men row six or seven hundred strokes daily, and run about two miles. Several of the Freshmen are well built for rowing, and promise to make good men for the University; and the candidates are, as a whole, equal to the average Freshmen crew. Messrs. Schwartz and Crocker of last year's 'Varsity are coaching them with marked success. Mr. Schwartz in particular gives surprising...
Immediately after the Freshmen the 'Varsity take possession of the machines. Captain Bancroft has set Captain North the example of having two eights at work. By keeping so many men in training, an opportunity for regular exercise is given to those who desire it, and a sufficient supply of good oarsmen is insured to form a crew, should one be desired, which can pull with the 'Varsity. There is no regular coach for the men now; Mr. Bancroft himself gives to their work the necessary oversight. They are doing a steady, moderate amount of work, which will, of course...