Word: captains
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Putnam has been elected captain of the 1901 football team...
...idea of holding fall practice is not to pick a nine or develop team work, but to enable the captain and coaches to decide the various positions in which men should be tried, so that the cage work of the early spring may not be blind. The playing squads which have to be handled in the cage are too large to enable such a test to be made, and furthermore, a reliable test cannot be made indoors...
...judge from the first week's preliminary practice, the prospects of this year's Yale eleven are bright, with certain qualifications. Of the twenty-eight old players, who were asked to report early, Captain McBride, Townshend, Brown and Stillman, are the four members of the '98 'Varsity who will be able to play again this year. Coy and Hubbell, ends, and Kiefer, halfback, are reported as conditioned in their studies. Four reliable players, however, are considered a strong nucleus...
...right guard, the three prominent candidates are Brown, the left guard's younger brother, who has played on the Groton school eleven the past two years; Gaylord, the former Lawrenceville guard; and Young '01, who was on last year's scrub. It is in filling right tackle, ex-Captain Chamberlin's position, that the most difficulty is anticipated. Not only are the candidates for it players of little experience, but they have shown nothing more than mediocre skill. Consequently, some new main from the incoming class will probably be developed. This will not be the case on the ends, especially...
...present coaching the men back of the line, is expected to be made head coach. His attendance, however, at the Yale Medical School, presupposes that at any rate he will be with the 'varsity throughout the season. His efforts will soon be powerfully seconded by Thorne, the '96 captain, by Murphy, the '97 captain, and by Butterworth, the '95 fullback. James Robinson, who has long been engaged in athletic work, will have charge of the training of the eleven...