Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several spectacular runs by Booth, the Yale captain and halfback, forced the Crimson to take the defensive deep in their own territory early in the game. But a counter-attack due largely to the superb broken field play of F.J. Gilligan '32, brought the wall to the Blue one-foot line at the opening of the second period. A stubborn Eli defense resisted and took the ball on cowns. A second time a vicious assault in which Gilligan figured prominently carried the ball to the three-yard line, where the Yale forward wall again held firm...
...decision to abolish the traditional pre-game mass meeting was made at a conference between Head Coach Arnold Horween '21, Captain A. E. French '29, and Manager Youngman...
...Captain's Mess, in the banquet hall...
...disposition, Rogers Hornsby is a superlatively good baseball player. Yet of late he has not stayed long on any "club." Three years ago he was made manager of the St. Louis Cardinals; they won the pennant and he was traded to the New York Giants, where he was captain and assistant manager; last year he was traded to Boston where he squabbled with onetime manager Jack Slattery, a native of the city, and supplanted him as manager. Because Bostonian baseball fans were annoyed at this and because Rogers Hornsby demanded $50.000 yearly, Judge Fuchs sold him. Hornsby likes...
Instead of proverbial rollicking freedom, rhythmic sea-chanteys, rough cammeraderie of the sea, Blettsworthy, supercargo, found ship's quarters confining, and ship's officers hostile. The horizon, interminably empty, offered no distractions from his recent troubles; the officers, continually quarreling, added to the gloom. The captain, who by all standards of sea-lore should have concealed a heart of gold beneath his rough exterior, revealed, by persistent bullying, his petulant nature. Moreover he consumed his soup with a sibilant hiss. Blettsworthy, mimicking him, incurred a wrath that culminated horribly: the ship was wrecked off the stormy Patagonian coast...