Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friday afternoon tilts with a team of graduates form the central feature of the fall practice schedule for the University lacrosse team, now working out daily under the direction of Coach Talbot. A former Crimson captain and a former coach are included in the aggregation of alumni which is to provide the opposition for the University outfit...
Paul Gustafson '12, who was coach of the University team two years after his graduation, is one of the leading players on the alumni twelve. A. E. Reed '26, captain in his senior year, W. W. Babson '26, R. F. Murphy '27, Joseph Sullivan '26, and W. E. Westman '22 are among the other alumni, for the most part students in the Gradlate Schools, who do fighting togs once a week...
John Paul cruised in southern seas, beat a mutinous sailor who later died. A murderer by gossip, John Paul finally set his course northward, took Jones for a last name and came to North America. In 1776 he was made a Captain in command of a flagship. A narrow elegant figure, he stood on the bridge of this vessel and set out to make the world ring with his name...
...exploits that made him the American counterpart of Francis Drake reached their heights in the moonlight encounter between his Bon Homme Richard and the British ship-of-war Serapis; an encounter which began when the British captain, Pearson, cried: " 'What ship is that?' From the Richard came the reply: 'I can't hear what you say.' 'Answer at once,' shouted Captain Pearson, 'or I shall fire.' . . . The Richard's bo'sun leaned out of a port. 'Fire, and be damned to you.' " For a long time guns...
...Purdue football team was surprised and disappointed at Harvard's weakness in Saturday's game, according to a statement made by Chester Wilcox, captain of the Boilermakers, to a CRIMSON reporter...