Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even so, the point is somewhat blunted by your devoting most of two columns to three of Wooster's illustrious sons. I was privileged to know them all; Dr. Elias Compson, "77, Dean ("pink-slips"), as little as possible; "Prep" Arthur H. in the vague background; Karl, '07, as Captain and left end of the team on which I played an intermittent right end. Largely due to Karl, that team was not scored upon until its final game, when a soggy Columbus field enabled a heavier Ohio State eleven to score two touchdowns; both around my end, not Karl...
...Ohio youth can still become president of the U. S., as many of them have, but no longer can he be captain of a team at the Ohio State University. The Athletic Board has abolished captains. Henceforth the team (in any sport) will have a field leader, appointed by the coach before the game. Campus politics so tangled themselves in the election of team captains by the team members (after the custom of most colleges) that Ohio teams were weakened. The Athletic Board decided there should be less strife & feeling in electioneering; more strife & feeling against opponents on the playing...
...clock Monday, the University football squad will assemble at Notman's Studio to have its annual picture taken and to elect a captain for next year...
...official squash season will open today when four teams from the University will do battle on courts away from Cambridge. The University racquetmen, composed of Captain J. L. Pool '28, S. M. Dupertuis '28, Seabury Oliver '28, B. H. Whitbeck '29, and A G. Thatcher '29, will meet the Union Boat Club team on the latter's courts...
Coach Farrell hopes for a large number of men to report on Monday, and stressed the fact that inexperience is no bar to competition. Starting last Monday, unofficial practice has been held daily in the old baseball cage on Soldiers Field. About 100 candidates, headed by Captain A. H. O'Neil '28, have already reported...