Word: captain
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SIRS-At one of the conventions of the Intercollegiate Football Association held in New York, Mr. Young delegate from Pennsylvania told Mr. Leeds delegate from Harvard, that he had seen a letter written by Captain Linn of the Harvard nine offering a certain man inducement to come to Harvard to play baseball. A few days later in its issue of November 16 under the heading "Harvard's Way of Doing it" the following article was published in the New York Herald. "Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 15. 1889.- Another instance of the prevalent and pernicious system of "ringing in" outsiders came...
...defeat by Harvard was the only one which the Dartmouth eleven sustained this fall. A. C. Gildersleeve has been elected captain of the Columbia foot ball team for next year. The authors to be read in English A, the last half year, are Addison, De Foe, Dryden, Pope and Swift...
...Dana, '91, who has been elected captain of the Princeton nine for this year, is one of the best first basemen Princeton has ever had. In the spring of '86 he played first base for the first part of the season, and then center field, on the Exeter academy nine, which defeated Andover seven to six. He was one of the heaviest batters on the team. He passed his examinations for Princeton at the end of that year but did not enter college until the fall of '87. In the spring of '88 he was first baseman on the Princeton...
...would be strange if with our large classes we could not find more good men than a college of fewer numbers. But the difficulties of getting those men to work are great. The captain can have only a limited acquaintance in his class, and must trust to the men to respond to his calls printed in the CRIMSON. But many good men hesitate about offering themselves; some, through modesty, others through indifference; I have heard men say even in November "they thought the crew had been chosen;" some have an idea that assessments are levied on the candidates...
...would urge the freshman class to read carefully Mr. Alexander's letter published in another column. Every year there are misunderstandings in regard to the freshman crew which greatly hinder the captain and coach in their efforts to put a good crew upon the water. The difficulties are fully explained by Mr. Alexander. Too much stress cannot be laid upon the importance of getting out every man eligible to try for a place. In this way only can the best eight be selected. The Ninety-three crew has some hard work before it, in the class races...