Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place, other universities and colleges have not so completely cancelled their sports. At the universities where all intercollegiate contests have been cancelled, regimental and other forms of athletic games have sprung up, and the regular university teams have wound up their season with the election of next year's captain. At several others, intercollegiate sports appear to be taking their natural course, although the teams have been somewhat depleted by the entrance of the undergraduates into military service...
...Yale, as at the University, all intercollegiate athletics have been given up, spot for sport's sake becoming more evident. The baseball team, after winning five straight victories, wound up its season with the election of R. F. Snell, 1918, regular second baseman on last year's team, as captain for next year. Intramural contests have been started however, and the first game between the college and Sheffield was played Saturday. With the election of J. D. Nagel, 1918, a pole-vaulter, as next year's track captain, the official season of the track team was brought to a close...
With the declaration of war, intercollegiate athletics ceased also at Princeton. Five men were entered in the Pennsylvania relay carnival, but no relay team was sent. J. H. Barrett, 1918, has been elected captain of next year's track team. A scrub baseball team has been organized and games with nearby teams are being played and the other athletic equipment of the university is at the disposal of the students, over 200 of whom have dropped all their studies and gone into intensive training...
...Captain Cordier, commandant of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, returned yesterday afternoon from Washington, where he has been engaged in work for the Harvard unit for more than two weeks. After a conference with President Lowell yesterday evening the following joint statement was given...
...interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night, Captain Cordier said that although the Government would not furnish subsistence for the Corps, it would later supply complete equipment. He also stated that all the officers now at the University would remain here throughout the summer, and added that "the training at Harvard will be practically the same as at Plattsburg and the other training camps, and in my opinion all those who complete the training at Harvard will be eligible for commissions as soon as they reach the age fixed, which at present is 21. Many thousand officers will be needed...