Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After the game with Yale, the eleven elected Sears captain for next year...
...does not win so many victories over Yale that it can afford to let them pass by unnoticed. It is to be hoped that '91 will wake up and show some interest hereafter in their team. The success of the eleven is largely due to the efforts of the captain, who is deserving of the highest praise. The football team has done its work nobly; it now remains for the nine and the crew to do the same...
DEAR SIR:- Some time since, Captain Bishop, Harvard '91, was directed to acknowledge the receipt from Yale '91 of a challenge to an eight-oared shell race, with coxswains, two miles straightaway, to be rowed at New London, date to be settled later...
...Captain Bishop was also to state to you that an answer would be sent on the 16th inst. Accordingly at a meeting of the Governing Committee on Rowing, which was held last night, it was unanimously voted that the challenge from Yale '91 to Harvard '91 be not accepted...
...gallant fight they made. Every inch of ground was stubbornly contested. Our eleven played a magnificent up-hill game from the start, and too much praise cannot be showered upon the men who represented our college. In fact we have made an up-hill fight the whole season. Our captain, beginning with comparatively new material, was obliged to put forth every exertion, and spared neither time nor trouble to form a team which should be a credit to Harvard. And he may well be proud of the result. The eleven has brought nothing but honor...