Word: captain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the prestige of a victorious season behind them and with the confidence of more successes to come, thirty-five men reported for the first practice on Monday, September 18. The old players to return, in addition to Captain Burden, were Boal, Hallowell, Daly and Warren, and later Eaton, Swain, Burnett and Donald. With this nucleus of old players has been built up a Harvard eleven which today stands stronger than last year's at the same date, and which conservative experts have declared to be the strongest eleven that has ever represented the University. The slump that came last...
...Harvard eleven is a team and not an aggregation of stars. Each man is part of the unified whole. Captain Burden, Donald, Hallowell and Burnett are playing the reliable game they did last year. A. R. Sargent, who has been playing in Boal's place, and Lawrence, both new men on the team, have overcome the tendency to lose their heads and are now very steady players. Campbell has adjusted himself to the team more easily than any of the new men. Daly plays the same game as last year but Reid has fallen off. Kendall is a brilliant line...
...option is offered of attendance four times per week, during the day, each period to be thirty minutes long. Members of the class who are in training for any team or crew will be excused from attendance upon presentation of a written statement from the captain of the team for which the training is done. This exemption applies only during the period of actual training...
...Captain Rice of the track team has received a challenge from the Yale Cross Country Club for a cross country race to be run on or about December second. The conditions are that there be from five to seven men on each team, and that the course be about seven miles in the vicinity of Cambridge. The challenge will in all probability be declined, because the men, who have not been training, could not get into condition by that time...
...meeting of the Weld Boat Club held at the boat-house yesterday afternoon, H. Bancroft 2L. was elected club captain...