3. (Rugby).—Each House had [1871] two CAPS, one the football cap and the other the house-cap. The former was a sign of distinction, and worn only by the few boys in the school to whom it had been given.... If a boy distinguished himself in cricket, he was allowed to wear a red band; or, as a higher distinction, a blue band.... Distinctions might be varied in all manner of ways according as a boy had won his red or his blue band, his flannels, or his cap.... CAPS are now (1890) given by the head of the School Fifteen. After the CAPS come the FLANNELS (_q.v._), and then come the players without distinction. The CAPS and FLANNELS in each House go to make up the House Fifteen; the FLANNELS, without the CAPS, go to make up the second fifteen in each House, which is called BELOW CAPS, or for brevity, BELOW. The next fifteen in each House are called TWO BELOWS, and so on, though it rarely happens that a House has more BELOWS than two.—LEES KNOWLES. _Verb_ (general).—To take off or touch one’s hat in salutation: also TO CAP TO and TO CAP IT. 1593. H. SMITH, _Scrm._ (1871), i. 203. How would they CAP me were I in velvets. 1803. _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam_, p. 23, _s.v._ BORE. Other bores are to attend a sermon at St. Mary’s on Sunday ... TO CAP a fellow. *Captain of Election*, _subs._ (Westminster).—_See_ quot. 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 183. The CAPTAIN OF ELECTION—the boy who gains first place—has the privilege of being almost entirely exempted from the fagging incidental to his junior year, and has his name painted on the election board in gold letters. These tablets, fixed up in the dormitory, go back as far as 1629; and among the names of the CAPTAINS, besides Lord Mansfield, as already mentioned, may be read those of Markman, Warren Hastings, Cyril Jackson and his brother the bishop, Randolph (Bishop), Abbot (Speaker), Longley, &c. *Captain of the Boats*, _subs. phr._ (Eton).—_See_ quot. 1865. _Etoniana_, p. 164. The CAPTAIN OF THE BOATS is perhaps the greatest person in the school next to the head-master—if, indeed, he does not rival that great authority in the estimation of the boys. The whole regulation of the boats, both as to the selection of the crew of the racing “eight,” and of the CAPTAINS of the several boats which form the Fourth of June procession, rests entirely with him; and as he has a great deal of this kind of patronage at his disposal, his influence is very considerable. The boat crews are in some sort looked upon as the aristocracy of the school, and for this reason the position is an object of social ambition amongst the boys. *Cargo*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A hamper from home. The word is still in use.