field captain

American  

noun

Sports.

1. a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.

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field captain British  

noun

1. the senior official at an archery meeting, responsible for safety

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field captain

On my first morning in Greenland, I dropped in on a weather meeting with John Sonntag, mission scientist and de facto field captain for Nasa’s Operation IceBridge.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2017

Then Athena, standing by, filled out his limbs again, gave girth and stature to the old field captain fresh from the bathing place.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The field captain of the said forts shall receive an annual pay of one hundred and fifty pesos, without anything else.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen

His Eastern employers were growing irascibly impatient, and the letters and telegrams were beginning to have an abrasive quality disagreeably irritating to a hard-working field captain.

From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis

As Hugh had been made field captain, he would have charge of the playing to a considerable extent.

From The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight by Ferguson, Donald