Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Miller, '90, K. L. Ames, '90, and J. S. Black, '91; Wesleyan by A. E. Hancock,'90; Wesleyan by A. E. Hancock, '90; the University of Pennsylvania was not represented. The following officers for the Intercollegiate FootBall association were elected for the ensuing year: President, the captain of the Yale team; secretary, K. L. Ames, Princeton; treasurer. A. J. Cumnock, Harvard. The following changes in the rules made by the advisory committee, with a few small corrections, were adopted by the delegates...
...Harvard made every effort to play a game on Wednesday, May 1, as arranged. Late Tuesday might it was found that the class team would have to be examined by Dr. Sargent before leaving town. Efforts were made the next morning to have this done, but the captain of the '91 nine did not succeed in getting his men together in time to be examined and leave for Exeter at the time arranged. It would seem that the sophomore captain might have had his men measured at some time during the whole morning, if he had made every possible effort...
...Friday, May 10. The Exeter manager secured special permission from the faculty to play on that day, and telegraphed to Cambridge to have the team come if it could reach Exeter by a certain hour in the early part of the afternoon. The combined efforts of the '91 captain and manager failed to find on the time-table the train which was scheduled to reach Exeter at the said time. Notice was thereupon sent to Exeter stating Harvard's inability to reach Exeter at the appointed hour. The Exeter manager at once sent back word to come anyway...
...management certainly deseves censure for its slowness in the matter. There was no excuse for not finding out every particular in regard to the trains, and then after that it would seem that the captain did not make an effort to get his men together and go to Exeter proportionate to the trouble which the management there took to arrange the game...
...Exonian says that two letters have been written to Captain Willard concerning a game with the 'varsity, both of which remain unanswered. We would say that only one letter was received by him, and this was answered almoust immediately...