Word: captains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gill, Yale '89 has decided to take a graduate course next year and will accept the position of captain of the 'varsity foot ball team...
...sends but its chances of winning the cup are considered excellent. The team is strong in the same respects as it was last year. Thirty-two men have been entered in the various events, but it is not probable that more than twenty of these will compete. Sherill '89, captain of the team, is running in fine form, and is generally considered a winner of the 100 yards dash and the 220 yards dash, although Lee and Moen of Harvard, may push him hard. Shearman, '89 has twice won the broad jump, and once the pole vault. He has improved...
Saturday afternoon the 'Varsity nine played its second game with the Williams college team, and this time succeeded in defeating it in a close, though not especially exciting contest. The nine was deprived of the services of Captain Willard, who was away, but McKean '90, who covered first base in his stead, played a very creditable game both at the bat and in the field. The home team played remarkably well in the field. The out fielders were slow in fielding the ball in, but the work of the infield was good. Much of the credit of winning the game...
...Jones '92 has been elected permanent captain of the Yale freshman nine...
...Captain Janeway will have a small but strong team of men at the Berkeley Oval on the 25th. Princeton counts on Dohm in the quarter and half and Janeway will make a good showing in the shot...