Word: captains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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George Peabody Gardner, Jr., '10, of Boston, was elected captain of the University tennis team for next year at a meeting held yesterday afternoon...
...squads arrived here late this afternoon and immediately went to their quarters. The launch "Elihu Yale" was in readiness and the shells were all rigged for the men, but the crews were unable to go out on account of the heavy rain. D. M. Baker, 1911 S., was elected captain of the freshman eight...
...Haven, Conn., June 7.--F. T. Nelson '10 was today elected captain of the Yale track team for next year. Nelson prepared for Yale at Lawrenceville School. In his freshman year he won first place in the pole-vault in the meet with Harvard 1910. Last year he tied for first in the dual meet and in the intercollegiates, and this spring he won the pole-vault in the Harvard and Princeton dual meets, and tied for second place in the intercollegiate games...
...election of a successor to Captain Rand is significant. Harvard has enjoyed few first-rate track captains in the past, and of course it would be a platitude to ascribe our present winning streak in all sports to exceptional captains--combined with improved coaching. Rand won his place in the front rank by the measure in which he contributed to the building up of this season's team. Without detracting from the coaches' credit, it is only fair to say, in the words of one of them, that Rand was the "sun-shine" of the team. Confronted by material appreciably...
...apparent that next year's captain will have a difficult precedent to follow, but his work has been characterized by pains-taking assiduity--not only that, it is common talk that his assistance played a material part in the success of other members of the team. On his own part, from failing to place in the dual shot-put a year ago, he has become the intercollegiate champion and all but record-holder. Starting with the material at hand, there is no reason why the hard work he can be counted upon to put in should not make for victories...