Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Payne has been elected captain of the Princeton freshman nine...
...Sears, Gage, Loomis, Herod and Gregory, '91, S. Besides these, N. McClintock, Poole, Root, Dalzell, and Dickerman, '91, S., are training with the University nine. The men are an unusually good set, and the competition for positions will he uncommonly close. F. C. Huntington, who was recently elected temporary captain, is one of the most promising candidates, and judging from his past record as second-baseman for three years on the Exter nine, he will do credit to his class. All the men are at present exercising in a body. They run a short distance every day, besides doing general...
...whom are well qualified to compete. The most promising candidate for first base is Dana, '91, who made for himself a good record as first-base man on the Exeter nine. This position on the Princeton team, it will be remembered, is made vacant by Larkin, last year's captain, not being back. There is available material in the freshman class that is somewhat above the average, and one or two men will be appointed substitutes at least. The members of the last team, who are in college now have improved in most cases to a marked degree. This...
Huntington has been elected temporary captain of the Yale freshman nine...
...following is quoted from the speech of ex-Captain Rogers, of the Yale crew, at the dinner of the Hartford Alumni: "There are sixteen men in training for the crew, of whom four are veterans, and their motto is, to put it forcibly, 'Lick Harvard or Bust...