Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of students gathered on Jarvis yesterday afternoon to watch the game for the class championship between Eighty-eight and Ninety. All were disappointed, however, for the captain of the senior nine withdrew his men from the field, refusing to play the game without an umpire of his own choosing, Mr. Downer was the regularly appointed umpire, but he failed to appear. Capt. Holden refused to allow another undergraduate to officiate in Mr. Downer's position, and as Capt. McKean would not agree to hire a professional umpire, the game was not played...
...spectators who collected on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon in the expectation of seeing a class base-ball game, were disgusted at the action of the captain of one of the class nines. The captain insisted that some law-school man should be chosen as umpire, fearing that the partiality of any under graduate would lead him to side with the opposing team. When objection was made to his proposal, he immediately called his men off the field and refused to play. It would seem as though a man who has passed four years at college would be sensible enough...
...Bonsal, Princeton '89, has been elected captain of the lacrosse team for the ensuing year...
...will let the matter drop. In order to insure the continuance of all intercollegiate games, the students have themselves taken the proposition in hand and have set about organizing a special college police force, to do duty in the yard when any celebration is in progress. F. Stevenson, the captain of the crew, has been appointed chief of the college police, and he is busily engaged in making preparations to preserve order when another victory comes along. There is now very little doubt of any further interference of the faculty, and the ball games will take place as scheduled...
...ours and so the desire of winning it was not an incentive to hard work; the Mott Haven team has worked to win victory for victory's sake alone. The warmest praise of the college is due to the members of the team, and also to Mr. Lund the captain and Mr. Lathrop the trainer of the team whose efforts have contributed so largely to bringing us victory...