Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the first practice for the Freshman football squad Monday the Horween system in its fundamental aspects under the tutelage of A. E. French '29, stellar captain of last year's Crimson eleven, and recently appointed head coach of the Freshman gridiron forces, will make its imprint upon the destinies...
...gridiron candidates will report in equipment at 1:30 o'clock on Monday and will meet newly appointed Coach A. E. French '29 at 3 o'clock at Soldiers Field locker building French who was captain and star halfback on last year's eleven will have for his assistants this year. Walter Cleary who has coached the yearling line for the last three seasons; Frank Pickard '29, who played at end on the 1928 team and will handle the ends; and Rufus Bond '16 who will have charge of the backfield squad. Former Freshman coach, E. L. Casey '19, whose...
...something definitive about the selection of an early season first team. All the trusted linemen of last year who have returned for the present campaign are to be found in this forward wall. The ends are J. G. Douglas '30, R. H. O'Connell '30, both lettermen, the tackles Captain J. E. Barrett '30 and F. S. Davis '30, the former one of the outstanding tackles of last year and the latter a veteran of many games. The guards, J. N. Trainer '31, and W. D. Ticknor '30 were perhaps the most reliable standbys of last year's rugged team...
...Thus beating the world's record of John Henry Mears and the late Captain Charles B. D. Collyer-23 days, 15 hours, made by air- plane and steamship in 1928. Last week Mr. Mears declared that he would next year try to fly the earth in 16 days with an amphibian. The pilot he wants: burly Bernt Balchen, now with Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in Antarctica...
Capt. Harold A. Cunningham navigated the S. S. Leviathan westward from Cherbourg with a record-breaking number of passengers aboard (2,730). With millionaires bunking with the crew, dowagers traveling third class, Captain Cunningham wired a berth-seeking friend: "Would put you up in my own cabin but every locker is full. Reserving bottom shelf for you next trip...