Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hunting has been elected temporary captain of the Yale freshman nine...
...candidates have been rowing three weeks. The captain has done all the coaching...
George E. Manchester, who has played half-back on the Wesleyan foot-ball eleven for three years, has been elected captain for next year...
Immediately after the Christmas recess, Captain Hale summoned candidates for the senior crew, and some fifteen men presented themselves. There are no old men among them, and the prospect for a crew is not at present encouraging. The scheme of work of the candidates is the following: At quarter after four the men meet and use the chest-weights for fifteen or twenty minutes. At half-past four they repair to the rowing room, where they are busy until five o'clock. At five they take a fast run of a mile out-of-doors, and this ends their work...
...athletics, there has been a tendency for the athletic men of Exeter to enter Yale. We are glad to see that next year Exeter will send to us a large number of men, and among them a goodly share of her athletes and her prominent literary men. Cranston, the captain of this year's foot-ball team, wishes to come to Harvard and will doubtless do so. The other foot-ball men who will enter with '92 are Harding, the best quarter-back Exeter has ever had, brother of Harding, quarter back on the 'Varsity this fall; Vail, lett guard...