Word: captain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best news of the day came when it was revealed that Captain Torbie Macdonald was certain to see action against New Hampshire Saturday. But for a bad case of indigestion he would have played last Saturday. He is now off the doctor's list and showed a lot of zip in signal drills...
Macdonald will get some much-needed contact work this Saturday, but at present there are no changes contemplated in the varsity backfield. Torbie and Charley Spreyer will alternate at tailback. Should the Crimson captain prove that he is ready to play the major portion of a game, changes may be in order. With Macdonald and Spreyer in the game at the same time, Harvard would present its strongest and most dangerous attack...
...when City of Flint reached Haugesund, it dropped anchor anyhow. Norwegian officials went aboard and asked why the Germans had disobeyed their decision. "Orders from my Government," said the prize chief. Norway at once interned the prize crew, released City of Flint to her captain to go wherever he had a mind (see p. 16). He headed for neutral Bergen to wait for the political nor'easter to wane. Germany, in a great show of fury, protested to Norway. Norway coolly rejected the protest, with a review of the case which made it look very much as though Germany...
...rescuers found nothing. Captain W. W. Kuhne of American Export Line's Excambion docked at Boston and snorted: "The whole thing sounds fishy! . . . Very heavy seas were running. It was pitch-dark. Visibility was almost zero. In my opinion no submarine could have operated successfully...
...Yardling booters, led by their captain, Jack Calhoun, who scored two sensational goals, trounced the Tufts Freshmen Friday afternoon by a 4 to 1 margin...