Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wallace took Beecher's place as captain and quarter back on the Yale team Saturday...
...Wesleyan, Beattys, the captain and quarter-back, Manchester and Slayback, did good work. As to Harvard, the whole team should have the credit of playing good foot-ball. If the men continue to do conscientious work, there is no reason why we should not have a fair chance to beat Yale and Princeton...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- At the risk of laying myself open to the charge of interference with the captain of the 'Varsity eleven, I cannot help, as a graduate, expressing my wonder that the eleven which is to meet Princeton and Yale in the foot-ball field so shortly has not been definitely decided upon long before this. The Yale eleven has been selected for at least two weeks; every member has his position definitely assigned to him, and knows that he will fill that position and no other for the remainder of the foot-ball season, provided no accident occurs...
...Princeton eleven has been much strengthened the past week by the addition of the Hodge brothers and the recovery of Captain Wagenhurst...
...proved very exciting. '90 won the drop by about three inches and held it for three minutes, when '91 began to pull the rope over to their side and finally won by about four inches. In the evening a reception was tendered Mr. A. B. Coxe, '87, the captain of last year's athletic team, who was presented with a miniature Mott Haven cup, one side of which is engraved with the victors of the cup since its origin, and the other with a presentation inscription...