Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most encouraging of all for the varsity is the news that captain Eddie Martin has looked better during the past week than at any other time since he incurred his crippling heel injury. If Martin is healthy, there are few men who can beat him. Sophomore Tony Field, weakened earlier this season by the effects of an operation, will start for the first time today and should help the Crimson cause...
...Varsity captain Keyes consistently ruined Williams' offensive plans. The Eph goalie, Bob Adams, periodically admonished his teammates to "get past the big guy if you have to crawl over him," but Keyes stopped everything. Early in the third quarter he came staggering out of a collision near the Crimson goal, holding both hands to his head and obviously badly dazed. Nevertheless, he stayed in the game...
After dribbling through most of the Crimson defense, Maierhoffer evened the count early in the second period. On the scoring play, Lanny Keyes, the varsity's captain and fullback, seemed to reinjure his heavily taped right leg. Operating at considerably less than top efficiency, he stayed in the game and was again the one essential man in the Crimson's defensive backfield...
TIME COVER SUBJECT MAKES GOOD. Thirty-five years ago, the handsome, cowlicked Yale crew "captain, James Stillman Rockefeller, smiled out from a TIME cover, his expression confident that the Olympic crew that he led would go forth, "the bronze-skinned ones, to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old." The late Arthur Brisbane, his fancy tickled by the responsibilities of "this stalwart scion of honorable American lines," imagined him stirring his men to victory with "winged words plucked bright and burning" from the Homeric Greek...
...Died. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 71, British World War I cartoonist who spent his spare time in the muddy trenches in France drawing "Old Bill," the sad-eyed, shaggy-headed, walrus-mustached embodiment of the dogged British Tommy, earned a fortune as Old Bill endeared himself to readers around the world; in Norton, England...