Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following Coach Haines' usual policy, the 1929 captain was not chosent until shortly before the first race. Several men acted as temporary captains in order to give the crew a chance to decide who would make the best leader...
...getting four bingles in seven trips to the plate, Captain Todd passes Zarakov, University third sacker, for the lead in batting among the regulars who have officially opposed moundsmen more than 2 times. The Crimson clean-up man is now hitting for the respectable figure of 327, while Zarakov has dropped to .302, barely above the coveted .300 mark...
Duchin, who has only played for the University outfit in one game, that against Springfield, nominally leads the Harvard stickmen with an average of 500, and three others, not classed as regulars, also top the Crimson captain and third-base man. Barbee and Cutts, both pitchers, are violating the rules of the twirlers' union by hitting for .333, and Burns, the Sophomore outfielder whose early season injury is keeping him out of this lest of regulars, is also meeting the ball on an average of once in three tries...
...Captain Henry Russell of Cornell will enter this year's meet as the defending champion, and naturally will be rated as a likely repeater after the form he showed in the indoor 70 yard championship. Russell was two-tenths of a second away from Wefer's record last year, but so were Bill Schick of Harvard in 1904 and Reidpath in 1912 and Woodring...
Getting back into its victorious stride yesterday afternoon on Divinity courts, the University tennis team overwhelmed Lehigh, 9-0. The feature match was Captain Whitbeck's three set victory over Sullivan, the Lehigh number one man. Sullivan, a double victor with Tilden, the national champion, at Winchester last week, defeated Van Ryn, the Princeton ace earlier in the season Whitbeck's victory is particularly notable since he was defeated by Van Ryn last...