Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and commanded by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian-born soldier of fortune...
...north again to the Polar Sea. Well within the Arctic Circle, they had encountered weather severe enough at times to deaden their radio equipment. The going was heavy. Their orders were to set up a more powerful radio sending set when they topped the divide, flash a signal for Captain Wilkins and his aides to twirl their Fokker propellers in Fairbanks and take the air. The sledgers would then mush swiftly across the barren "benchlands" to meet them at the advance air base, Point Barrow...
...undefeated Yale Freshman Fencing team defeated the 1929 foilsmen last night in the Hemenway Gymnasium by a 6 to 3 score. D. F. Edgar, a Crimson substitute, starred for Harvard by winning both of his two bouts. Captain Hyde and Holliday were the outstanding performers for the Eli first year men. Most of the bouts were fast and the men on both teams showed an advanced knowledge of the fencing art. The meet was closer than the score would indicate since several of the Yale victories were by 5 to 4 scores. This marks the close of a rather unsuccessful...
John Schuyler Malick '27, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was elected captain of the 1927 basketball team at a meeting of the letter men yesterday...
...Leekley '27, J. S. Malick '27, and W. Van A. Coombs '27 are the only men who are eligible for the captain-ship...