Word: captain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jackson has been elected captain of the U. of P. ball nine in place of M. D. Ritchie resigned...
...varsity has been rowing for a week or so as follows: Stroke, Briggs; 7, Savage; 6, Oddie; 5, Sweetland; 4, King, 3, Moore; 2, Bentley; bow, Dalzell; coxswain, Captain Colson. This combination is rowing well together and will in all probability be kept as it is for some time-or at least until next week, when the practice races on the lake begin. As will be noticed, only five of these men were in the '97 victorious crew. Oddie '99 at 6 is filling ex-Captain Spillman's place very acceptably. When Odell left college last term it was thought...
...year has been the remarkable revival of lacrosse. The movement was begun in the winter term with such enthusiasm that when the out-of-door season opened, about twenty-five men reported-among them being not a few experienced players. The practice thus far has been fast and clever. Captain Powell expects to make a creditable showing against Harvard, Toronto, Lehigh and the other teams which will be met later in the term...
...meeting held last night "Scrub 1," of the Leiter cup baseball teams, decided to unite with the "Hot Tomales." The team thus formed, of which Paul Burrage '99 was elected captain, will be called "Hot Tomales...
...hardly necessary to say that such gossip is not only entirely unfounded, but exhibits a woeful ignorance of the machlnery of Harvard athletic management. The Athletic Committee, as we have already pointed out several times, exercises a guiding and advisory influence, leaving the execution of details to the captains and coaches of the several teams. A 'Varsity captain having his plan of campaing approved by the Athletic Committee, is virtually the monarch of all he surveys in the exercise of his office, and has the power to b eas arbitrary as he pleases, even to the extent of refusing...