Word: captain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Captain Ritchie and coach W. H. Murphy issued a call for baseball men in the middle of January. Since that time about sixty candidates have undergone the weeding out process. Practice was begun and continued for six weeks in a new temporary cage on Franklin Field, and the men practiced out of doors for the first time last week. There are now about twenty-five men playing and from this number will be chosen the regular 'varsity team and the reserves. Three regular players of last year's team have failed to return; they are Blakeley (capt.), third base; Voight...
Gidender will probably cover first base, as he did last year. Lucas and Jackson may alternate there. At second base it is likely that Captain Ritchie will be a fixture, although Ramsay, Kennedy, and Childs are doing good work. Third base and shortstop are doubtful positions, but will be contested for by Wilhelin, shortstop last year; Robinson, second base last year; and Wynne and Watt. In the outfield are Jackson and Huston of last year's team, Thomson, Haydon and Frazier. The team will start on its annual southern tour on April...
Spring football practice for candidates for positions back of the line has begun at Yale and will last until May 15. Captain Chamberlain is to be assisted in the coaching by W. Bull and Vance McCormick...
...football eleven for the class championship of 1897. The cups, which have just been completed, are similar to those given to 1901 for their victory over Yale-tall pewter mugs with glass bottoms showing the picture of the team. The men who received the cups are: J. W. Farley, captain, P. L. Brown, E. P. Davis, W. S. Simpson, G. W. Thompson, C. H. L. Johnston, C. E. Baldwin, J. B. Holden, N. W. Stowell, A. G. Kilbourn, H. D. Lloyd, J. A. Homans, T. E. Catlin, W. Adams, H. P. Macomber...
...Captain Chamberlain of the Yale football team held a meeting last night of the candidates for next year's team. About fifty men were present beside the team of last year...