Word: captains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...annual meeting of the Bicycle club for the election of officers was held last evening. The following were elected for the ensuing year: President. E. F. Rogers, '90; vice-president, R. H. Davis, '91; secretary and treasurer, C. W. Spencer, '90; captain, T. Barron, '91; finance committee, Wirts, Darling and Doe. The committee on election recommended seven new members, all of whom were elected. They are G. Rodemann, Gr., C. E. Burgess, '92. S. B. Sheffield, Sp., H. A. Rusch, '91, T. Everett, '91, R. Job, '90, T. G. Meyer, L. S. The committee on the race-meet reported...
...nine at New Haven on Saturday, we publish today a communication from a member of the team, and a statement in regard to the pitcher. In yesterday's CRIMSON we perhaps censured the pitcher too severely, when, as it turns out, he was acting only under orders from the captain. But our opinion of the action of the freshman team as a whole is unchanged. No such disgraceful thing has been done before in the history of our athletics. That it was done by a freshman team is a palliating circumstance, but in a game with another college a freshman...
...game at New Haven, Saturday, I acted only under the instructions of Captain Brown...
...have been played. If the weather was considered too bad for the game, the game should have been forfeited and money telegraphed for or borrowed by the careless manager. But if a game was necessary, it should have been played in a straight-forward, manly way. That the captain of the nine should adopt the policy of delaying the game, of resorting to trickery, unknown to our college teams before, and only on the level of professionalism, is utterly disgraceful and dishonorable, if not cowardly. If the game was begun, it should have been played in earnest. Fair defeat...
...regret the action of our freshman nine as bringing disgrace on our university. We hope that the captain and members of the nine will learn a lesson in regard to college athletics, and college opinion and conduct that they will never forget...