Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inhabitants of France, Belgium, England and the U. S., heaping glory, poetry and publicity upon 25-year-old Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh, found him so natural and so tactful that they predicted he would never unmake his fame. Was not the same immortality predicted for 61-year-old Admiral George Dewey...
Albert Henry O'Neil '28 of West Roxbury, yesterday was unanimously elected captain of the 1928, University track team by the 1927 lettermen gathered at Notman's for the squad picture. He succeeds E. C. Haggerty '27, this year's leader of the Crimson track and field forces...
...representing Exeter in the Harvard Interscholastic Meet, under miserable weather conditions, he travelled the half mile distance in 1 minute 68 1-6 seconds to break the meet record for this event set up by W. J. Bingham '16 when the present Harvard athletic director was Exeter's track captain...
...Freshman two years ago, O'Neil was captain of his team, and one of the 1928 track men's most steady performers...
This year, O'Neil was an able second in Captain Haggerty in the half, but failed to place against Yale when he was accidentally spiked. He took fourth behind Hogan of Yale, and Haggarty and Porier of Harvard. This injury also prevented his participation in the Interoollegiates at Philadelphia last Saturday...