Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...captain of the football eleven, in adopting the plan of training the candidates for next year's team, which is described in another column, has made a departure from the methods that have prevailed heretofore, which, it seems to us, must bring forth good results next fall. Harvard opens so late in the autumn that the time for training the eleven is much shorter than it ought to be. Training in the winter and spring, therefore, calculates to develop muscles called into play in foot-ball, and will be of especial value to men who intend...
...MANDELL, Captain...
...football squad which is now daily at work in the gymnasium under the direction of Mr. Lathrop has been formed for the purpose of bringing more directly under the observation of Captain Cumnock all those men, in whatever branch of the university they may be, who seem to be at all fitted for a position on next year's eleven. The men are under the command of ex-Captain Sears, who will also watch the candidates carefully. Everyone who considers himself at all likely to be able to play football, whether he has played before or not, is expected...
...Flagg, captain of this year's Exeter nine, will enter Harvard next year; Stearns, captain of the Andover nine, will enter Amherst...
...action of Mr. Finlay in resigning the captaincy of the crew, although it has occasioned much surprise, must in the end commend itself to everyone, not because Mr. Finlay could or would not fill the office of captain efficiently, but because it was done in a spirit which, if it prevailed throughout the college, would go far in restoring Harvard to the place she once held in inter-collegiate athletics. Mr. Finlay has realized that the position of captain of the University crew is one that carries with it too many responsibilities and requires too much technical knowledge and experience...