Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season before its second Canadian rival, McGill University, by a score of 3-1. The Montreal sextet furnished the Crimson skaters greater competition than the Toronto team did last week, snatching victory from the University in the last period which the two teams entered tied at one goal all. Captain J. P. Chase '28 scored Harvard's lone tally in the second period on a direct center shot...
...Captain Chase and his men, once more on the defensive, rallied and carried the fight back down the ice, peppering the barrier consisting sometimes of five men back to their own blue line. As time passed things began to roughen and penalties were numerous. The climax of a sensational battle came when St. Germain the McGill leader, streaking down the boards, crashed into an excited spectator leaning out over the ice and carried him out onto the rink. Greatly incensed the Canadian star was all for fighting his unexpected defense opponent, but players and officials came to the rescue...
...University maintained the upper hand over McGill during the rest of the period, changing its forward line frequently. The blue defense penetrated Crimson territory only four times. However, the third period turned the tables, Doherty giving his team the lead and Captain St. Germain clinching the victory...
...transatlantic run the Cunarder Andania was perhaps subjected to heaviest buffeting. When she reached Liverpool her master, Captain Doyle said: "It was as bad as we could have it and stay afloat. . . . Mountainous seas washed over us fore...
Nicaraguans in smart khaki uniforms and armed with rifles, machine guns and dynamite bombs, lay in ambush on the heights commanding a narrow defile in the Nicaraguan mountains. Soon Captain Richard Livingston, U. S. M. C., commenced to lead through the defile an expeditionary force of 200 U. S. Marines, 200 Nicaraguan National Guardsmen, and 200 pack mules. Purpose: To capture Quilali, the remote war base of the recalcitrant General Augusto Calderon Sandino whose men were ambushing the defile. Reason: The Sandino troops have been declared outlaws and bandits. Cause: Sandino and his men were the only Nicaraguan faction which...