Word: captain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gildersleeve has been elected captain of the Columbia football team for next year. Wettlaufer, '92, has been chosen to captain the Stevens team...
...muckers who assemble in the rectangle and throw out doubtful compliments to the editors as they walk along. Occasionally, also, the Advocate informs the eleven or the nine that if they can play well enough they will win, provided they don't get over confident; and tells the captain of the lacrosse team that if he keeps his head he will have a soft thing. When these articles appear the college smiles and tolerates the paper. But when this infantile burbling is turned in serious channels and pretends to represent college sentiment, it is time for the college to object...
...McDonald has been elected captain of the Wesleyan football team for next year...
Cornell recently challenged Yale to a three mile straightaway eight oared race to be rowed at New London in June. Captain Allen answered to the effect that Yale would restrict her aquatic contests to Harvard only. The following is his reply...
Edwin Yawger, '91, who played quarterback on the Cornell eleven this season, has been elected captain for next year...