Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Haven; but it will be due in Cambridge next year unless by mutual consent it be played elsewhere. Trusting that this will obviate your difficulty and bring about a speedy arrangement of the game, I am very truly yours, GEORGE M. GILL, Pres. F. B. A, HARRY W. BEECHER, Captain...
...foot ball management of not having said anything at the convention held in New York, in regard to the disinclination of our faculty to allowing the game to be played in New York this year. This is utterly false, as the manager of the Harvard team spoke to the captain of the Yale team upon the subject as both can testify...
...thing more. The Yale News, the Yale captain, and the Yale management seem to be of the opinion that "the Harvard faculty, if the facts of the case were laid before them in the right light, would withdraw their objection." Once for all, let us state that the Harvard faculty has nothing to do with the matter; full powers have been given to the athletic committee, and their decision is irrevocable. The game will not be played in New York...
...conclusion is plain enough. Since Harvard only agreed to play in New York last year because she relied on Captain Beecher's agreement to consider the game as equivalent to one played in New Haven, therefore, as Harvard cannot play in New York this year, Yale's honor, if nothing else, demands that she should play in Cambridge...
...illness will be a severe handicap upon his good play. Irvine, another strong player, of whom it is said he is the steadiest man upon the eleven, having had an experience of five years as a player, has retired on account of an injury to his ankle. Cowan, captain of the team, has resumed play after a week's absence. R. Hodge is one of the best players on the team, and uses his head as much or more than any member of the association. His presence always inspires the eleven, and he is of inestimable value to the captain...