New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Harvard Athletes
Get Commissions
From Plattsburg

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Aug. 1S.-The
| list of reserve officers who have OBJ
| tanned their commissions this week as
members of the New England contin-
gent at Plattsburg, n. Y. is generously
sprinkled with the names of athletes
the majority of whom have made their
names on Harvard athletic fields.
Three varsity sport captains, all OF
/ whom left Harvard in May TO enter the
Federal training camp, have received
| high commissions. George Z. Abbot, OF
I the nine, was commissioned a first lieu.
| tenant in the infantry section, and
| Henry B. Cabot, jr., captain of the 1917
! crew, received the same rank IN the
battery section. Edward A. Teschner.
! track captain, was appointed a second
| lieutenant in the infantry.
/ Amos R. Bancroft, who led the Har-
ward barriers last fall to a close victory
over Yale at Belmont, was made Sec
ond lieutenant in the infantry.
Gridiron Representatives
The following members of the var
| sity eleven of last fall were commits
stoned: Charles A. Coolidge, jr., end;
Jose Harris, centre; William F. Robin
son, quarterback, and Thomas II.
Thacher, halfback. Harris and Charley
! Coolidge were made captains in the in
! fantry and Robinson and Thacher re-
ceived commissions as first lieutensnts.
Mark w. Horne and Melville Weston
were other football men at Harvard to
be commissioned. Mark Farnum, Tom
Jenckes, Fred. Ward and Mario de
Vitalis were four of Browns football
men who were qualified. Hugh Haroi-
son and Joe Neville, of the Ellis, and
Waldo Shumway, of Amherst, also were
among the favored few.
J. Wells Farley, chairman Of the
Harvard football committee, received a
majors commission. Former football
stars at Harvard whose ability we're
recognized were: T. Jefferson Coolidge,
end, who picked up a loose ball three
years ago in the Hsrvard-Yale game
and raced the length of the field for a
touchdown; Harry Gardner, quarter
back and one of the best goal minders
IN Harvard hockey; Dick Wigglesworth,
another oldtime star quarterback, and
Tom Campbell, of the 1912 team.
Track Men Chosen
Besides Eddie Teschner, Henry W.
hluOl, the TAU man. - q licNh
representative commissioned. Minot
was made first lieutenant. George G..
Haydock. former Harvard jumper and
pole vaulter; Edward K. Merrihew and
John B. Cummings, former captains.
and Herbert L. Jacques and Robert st.
B. Boyd, former Crimson 'cross-country
leaders, also qualified. Herbert A. Gid
ney, the B. A. A. jumper, was made a
captain in the sth Infantry Company.
In addition to Captain Abbot, Frank
p. Coolidge, catcher; Oliver Ames, jr.,
sub fielder, and Wilmot Whitney,
pitcher of the 1916 Harvard nine, were
commissioned.
Robert Baldwin. Of the Harvard
hockey team, received a first lieuten-
ancy. William II. Claim, jr., former
captain; Paul II. Smart and Gus Doty
were other hockey men given army rec
ignition.
Dorrill s. Tranholm, of the Dart
mouth track team, was made a first
lieutenant and ordered to the regular
army forces. r. Norris Williams, ma
t,onsl tennis champion, was appointed
second lieutenant in the third battery
company of the officers assigned to the
regular army. Raymond T. Smell. for
mer Brown catcher, wa, also placed
with the regular army,