Word: captain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the eleven held last evening in the Trophy room, Arthur James Cumnock, 91, was unanimously re-elected captain of the eleven for 1890. The following men attended the meeting: Crosby, Hutchinson, Hallowell, Stickney. P. Trafford, Tilton, Upton, Cranston, Blanchard, Dean, Fearing, Lee, Saxe, B. Trafford. Mr. Higginson has invited the eleven to attend a dinner at his home on Common wealth Avenue this evening...
...scrub teams composed of candidates for the freshman crew played a game of foot ball on Jarvis Saturday afternoon. Stone was captain of one eleven and Manly of the other. Stone's team...
...Roxbury and Trinity College, B. A. A. scored 88 points to their opponents' 41. The record is a good one considering the fact that the men are in business and have had very little time for practice. The success is in a large measure due to the exertions of Captain Peters. Next year the Association hopes to have in the field a team which can compete with the strongest elevens...
...election of Cumnock, '91, as captain of the eleven is from all points of view a fitting close to the foot-ball season. The energy and the skill which Captain Cumnock has shown has earned for him the confidence not only of the college but of the graduates as well. Harvard men may certainly feel that whatever mistakes may have been made will be corrected and whatever new ought to be done will be accomplished. The eleven is certainly in the best of hands, and the prospects for foot-ball in the future are better than they ever have been...
...Lincoln by Hay and Nicolay is drawing to a close, the topic for this number being the fall of Richmond. The serials, "Friend Olivia" by Amelia E. Barr, and "The Merry Chanters" by Frank R. Stockton are continued. The other articles are "The New Croton Aqueduct" by Charles Barnard, "Captain Joe" by F. H. Smith, "The Nature and Method of Revelation" by George P. Fisher, and "The Paris Panorama of the Nineteenth Century" by Alfred Stevens and Henri Gervex. The number as a whole is above the average in interest...