Word: captain
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...story of the afternoon is what happened next. Two possessions later, Harvard started a drive at the Holy Cross 42 thanks to senior Terence Patterson's 19-yard punt return. Wilford found tight end captain Chris Eitzmann for 14 yards and a first down, and a play later, he found Eitzmann again on the right sideline. Eitzmann was able to turn upfield and get to the four-yard line, then Wilford found junior fullback Grady Smalling for a four-yard touchdown...
Without great soldiers, we can receive such instruction, for instance, from Justin Leonard, whose sixty-foot putt on the seventeenth hole after two-and-a-half days of poor play sealed the American victory. We can look also to his 11 teammates and their captain Ben Crenshaw, who with Leonard staged the largest comeback in Ryder Cup history. They could have lost their will and surrendered, but instead they persevered to vindicate the honor of America. They may not be great soldiers, but they are great Americans who provided great examples of virtue for their countrymen. And for that...
...captain Anya Cowan made 12 saves, including four during a flurry of consecutive penalty corners in the second half, to earn her first shutout of the season as the Crimson (5-1, 2-0 Ivy) remained unbeaten in league play...
...Tiger Woods, who had made this the hardest America's Team to like this side of the old Dallas Cowboys with their griping that they didn't even get out of bed for $5,000, so why should they play golf for the U.S. for that paltry stipend? Team captain Ben Crenshaw was very publicly not amused, and the whole controversy threatened to wreck a team so clearly superior to its European opponents that member Payne Stewert told Golf Digest "On paper, they shouldn't (even) be caddying...
...Harvard defense is led by three team All-Ivy selection, co-captain Jessie Larson--who has also added the first four points of her collegiate career this season...