Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wylde Second Team Captain...
...tribe of Kansas. She was the great-grandmother of Senator Charles Curtis; she married a swashbuckling young Frenchman named Conville, who had hammered down his stakes near St. Louis. Their daughter married Louis Pappan, a French trader-from which wedlock sprang the mother of the Senator. Captain A.O. Curtis, his father, had come to Kansas from New Hampshire...
Charles' mother died early and he went to live with his grandmother on the Kaw reservation. There he frolicked with young redskins, taught tricks to puppies, rode ponies. At 8, he was a jockey in a state fair; Kansans cheered lustily for " ol' Captain Curtis' boy." There is a story that he was a Paul Revere at the age of 10; he rode 60 miles to Topeka to bring aid to the Kaws when the Cheyennes swooped down on their reservation. When the Kaws were sent to new lands in Oklahoma, he started out to go with them...
...Handub but a black archer pinked the Colonel in the neck, and the man with the ugly face escaped. For a while he hid in the hills, played a deadly kind of squat tag with all the British troops that came where he was. At last a sly captain named Burges chased him into a cave that had no back door. He was tried for rebellion, sentenced to life imprisonment in a hot cell in Egypt. After 22 years Parliament remembered that this fighting man was still alive. Judged him harmless, let him out. He spent the quiet evening...
...Wetmore '30 was elected chairman of the McKinlock Hall Dormitory Committee at a special election yesterday. He was captain and quarterback of the 1930 Freshman football team. Five other Freshmen were elected to the committee. They are W. D. Ticknor, John Noble Jr., Arthur Ingraham Jr., and F. P. Kinnicutt...