Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saturday evening, Captain Carey did not appear in the dining room for dinner. He was already beginning the vigil that ended Monday afternoon...
...were no rubdowns, there was no hot broth: for no quarters or dressing rooms were then in use. Until 1881 there was no medical supervisor nor any physical trainer. That year also witnessed the coming to Harvard of its first football coach, yet systematic coaching was not instituted until Captain W.A. Brooks '87 appointed F.A. Mason '84 coach...
...preserve football itself through a series of struggles for existence which had their inception about 1891 and ended just before the World War. It was in 1890 that Harvard had its first medical care of football players. Dr. W.M. Conant '79, a former player, was made by the captain, alsolute lord of the physical side of that year's eleven. In 1893 was begun the quarterback kick, the precursor of the onside kicking game. Likewise during this decade came the innovation of the first tackling dummy ever used at Cambridge. This was a crude and fearful engine, a cylinder...
...Yale Bowl, and the Crimson eleven came off with the honors, 36 to 0. Late in this tilt, it is stated, the onlookers were treated to the greatest exhibition of generalship ever seen on a football field. It was Harvard's ball within drop-kicking distance and Captain C.E. Brickley '15, injured and on the bench, was sent into the fray apparently to try for a goal from the field and the satisfaction of scoring against Yale in the year of his captaincy. Using Brickley as a decoy, far out of the way of harm, Watson '16, at quarter, proceeded...
...several reasons: in this contest was scored by Harvard its first touchdown against Yale in the Stadium; in this contest was tallied the largest score Harvard ever made against Yale; in this contest was established perhaps the highest individual score for one game ever made on an Eastern gridiron, captain E.W. Mahan '16 checking off unaided, 29 of Harvard's 41 points...