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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lineup shifts seemed to be in order yesterday on Soldiers Field, for Coach French reorganized his Freshman squad during the course of the afternoon workout...
...entire squad has been striving for more speed and power on the offensive. With this object in view, Coach French pitted his first team against the second and dormitory teams in a stiff scrimmage yesterday afternoon. Lateral and forward passes have come in for their share of attention and no little success attended their use. An adequate defense against aerials has been the main weakness of the 1933 combination so far, and considerable attention will be given this department of play...
Coach Jackson Cannell with the assistance of three former members of the coaching staff, directed the team through various routine work. During the early part of the afternoon the team went through a blacking and tackling practice, as Coach Cannell is still a little dubious about the powers of his eleven in this line. In the meantime the Gray team, under the supervision of Swede Young storm, a former Dartmouth All-American, was concentrating on various Harvard forward and lateral pass plays...
Later in the afternoon a signal practice was held for all of the first four teams. Following this the Gray team was brought onto the practice field, wearing its crimson jerseys. It lined up against the first string and ran through the Harvard plays with more success than the coaches had anticipated. The lateral pass plays were especially effective against the first and second strings, and Coach Cannell was not at all satisfied with the showing of the squad as a whole when the afternoon session was called on account of the descending darkness. Tomorrow afternoon will see the Green...
...This afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field track candidates from the class of 1933 will gather together for the annual interdormitory fall track meet. All Freshmen are eligible to compete: and those who live outside of the dormitories will be assigned to certain halls for purposes of scoring. The winning dormitory teams will receive points toward the interdormitory Fall championship...