Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mass meeting in Princeton College, Wednesday, the following officers of the Foot-ball Association were elected: Thomas B. Hamilton, class of '88, president; J. R. Barr, class of '89, secretary and treasurer. Wm. J. Cook, class of '89, captain of the team, spoke in favor of Princeton withdrawing from the present intercollegiate league, and uniting with Harvard and Yale in a new one. Prof. Johnson was introduced, and advocated the plan for the purpose of making a more compact league, associating the three leading universities more closely, formulating good rules and eliminating undesirable features. Capt. Larkin of the base-ball...
...sort of joint stock company has been organized, and 200 shares of stock at $5 a share have been subscribed for. W. M. Vinton of the junior class, who is a professional base-ball player and can not play with the university team on that account, will be the captain and pitcher. Edward Parsons, '88, will manage the nine. The chief idea informing the new team is to give the regular college team practice, but games will be arranged with several other leading clubs. - N. Y. Times...
...article in Sunday's Herald by Captain Ward on the training of professional base-ball players suggests many points that would apply as well to rowing, foot-ball and any hard out-door exercise. It is the general law of training clearly put before the reader. "The sum and substance of the whole thing," writes Captain Ward, "is that a base-ball player must recognize the fact that base-ball is a business, not simply a sport." And although college athletics are not looked upon as a business, yet the idea in Captain Ward's words is true...
...Captain Ward also writes that there should be more individual training. A thin man needs different work to make him come to the same mark with a stout man. A nervous fellow must be treated differently than the others. Yet the members of our crews, and base and foot-ball teams are all trained alike. When a man gets over-trained they do not let him rest a day and then go on. If one finds his lungs a little weaker than the others, and that he cannot run from a warm gymnasium into the cold, frosty air without injuring...
...VILA, Captain...