Word: cumnock
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the foot ball team yesterday at Capt. Cumnock's room, it was voted that Cranston '92, Lee '91, Dean '91, and Cumnock '91, as the oldest players, be sent to New York to represent the eleven at the monthly meeting of the New York Harvard Club. This election was in consequence of an invitation sent to Captain Cumnock by the secretary of the club to send down four members of the eleven as guests of the club...
...important factor in that defeat, took place. At quarter before 8 o'clock the great dining room of the RevereHouse, decorated with Harvard banners, was filled with three hundred men waiting for the team to come in. The band played Fair Harvard as Neal Rantoul '92 escorted Captain Cumnock to his seat of honor on the right of the president of the dinner, Moses Williams, Jr., '91. The team followed and took seats at the head of the table to the right and to the left...
...Gould, Jr., '91. The poem was always happy and often brilliantly clever as it hit off the prowess and familiar characteristics of the men we have watched with such deep interest that we have grown to feel the reality of that often hypothetical thing, college brotherhood. From Lake to Cumnock, he went through the list and ended by declaring "There's no sweeter music than Twelve...
...cries for Cumnock brought the hero of the occasion to his feet. His talk was characteristically to the point. "Last year we were all here and only wanted one thing, victory. This year nothing is lacking. We have come from third place to first. Cliques. societies, and clubs have been disfegarded and we have put a representative Harvard eleven in the field. It has won, but our black board did as much to spoil Yale's round-the-end play as practice on Jarvis and in the gymnasium...
After three times three for Captain Cumnock, the toast-master proposed cheers for Mr. Cumnock, senior, and Mr. Lee who were both present...