Word: captain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...addition to this the following letter was received by Captain Ames last spring from Mr. Stickney, who played on the Harvard Eleven this fall. We understand that the Yale Management was similarly approached by this player...
DEAR SIR:- I did not state to Mr. L. D. Mowry or to any other person that money offers of any kind had been made to me or to other members of the Andover team. No such offers have ever been made to me by Captain Sears, Captain Cumnock, or any other person, either before entering college or since. Last summer, on the invitation of several Princeton men, I went to Cape May and played on a baseball team. There were seven Princeton men and one University of Pennsylvania man, besides myself. We all received our board and an allowance...
...extract is false from beginning to end. I cannot even imagine the source of Mr. Mowry's authority. I never held any conversation with him in which I gave utterance to the foregoing quotation and was never offered any inducement to play on the team either by Mr. Sears, captain eleven in '88, or anybody else. I shall write to Mr. Mowry and will advise you of the result of the correspondence...
...character mentioned-a scholarship and pecuniary compensation, a ticket to Boston, etc., were extended to me by a Harvard man early in November to enter the Harvard Law School and become a member of the Harvard baseball nine and football eleven. The gentleman in question was not Captain Linn nor am I able to give the official connection with the Harvard association of the gentleman who approached me. However, the overtures were made and my reply at the time was as has already been stated, and I take no interest in college athletics, and would not under any consideration engage...
...candidates for the Yale 'varsity crew, coached by Captain Allen, rowed in the tank on Saturday in the following order: Bow, Williams, '91; No. 2, Camp, L. S.; 3, Jones, '91 S.; 4, Tilson, '91; 5, Heffelfinger, '91 S.; 6, Ely, '91; 7, Rogers, '90 S.; stroke, Simms...