Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior class day elections at Princeton resulted as follows: Master of ceremonies, H. S. Savage, captain of this year's foot-ball team; class president, R. B. C. Johnson; class secretary, I. Paige; class orator, R. W. Mason; class poet, L. Waggener, Jr.; ivy orator, E. M. Fitzgerald; presentation orator, C. P. I. Joyce; prophet, S. S. Izard; censor, F. Enos; historian, R. Gilchrist...
...that hopeful capacity, and only once has Harvard had to yield the victory. The other members of the team do not compare well with Easton in size of body, but they are scholarly, toughened young men, and each one good in his place, They were: E. A. Pease, captain and 1; Percy Chase, 2; Franklin Remington, 3. The teams took hold of the rope, and waited for the pistol. When it popped, there was a heavy thud, as the eight men reached the floor exactly together. There was a mighty straining, and in two or three seconds the old ribbon...
...Cook, '89, has been unanimously elected captain of the Princeton foot-ball eleven...
...Cooke, Tufts '87, the captain of the base-ball nine, has had the notice bulletined that all candidates for the team are to take daily exercise and practise in the gymnasium. The freshmen class has a large number of good players, and the prospects for the coming season are very fair...
...routine business of the meeting was pleasantly varied by the presentation of a gold headed cane to Mr. Garrison by Captain Peabody in behalf of last year's team, as a mark of appreciation of his services as manager...