Word: captains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CUMNOCK, Captain...
...York Herald contained an article. entitled "Harvard's Way of Dolng it," according to which a member of the Harvard nine was in Phi adelphia last week trying to get Ammerman of the University of Pennsylvanu to leave his college and enter Harvard to play on the nine. Captain Linn denies the truth of this article and says it has positively no foundation. The article is verbatim as follows...
...POWERS, Captain...
...POWERS, Captain...
...seldom failed to gain the requisite five yards. No one could tackle him and he generally managed to squirm along a few yards after being downed. Black the other half back did very little good work and allowed Ames and Channing to make all the large gains. Poe, the captain, at quarter back was indefatigable. He assisted the rushers and backs at every point, making holes for them and pushing them along by his own individual effort, and never failed to use his men to the best advantage. In the rush line Cowan did by far the best work...