Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work. Following Coach Winsor, Trainer Quinn announced that strict training will be required from now to the end of the season. The training table for the University team will begin at the Varsity Club with lunch on the first day after the recess. The meeting was concluded with a blackboard talk by Coach Winsor and T. S. Sampson '09, who explained the various formations to be used this year...
After demonstrating the principles of soaring, by blackboard diagrams, Mr. Merrill went on to explain the present weakness of the aeroplane, namely, the engine. It is the inefficiency of the motive power which has and still does limit the range and speed of the heavier-than-air machine. It is on the engine that French scientists are now putting their greatest efforts. To get the maximum horse-power with a minimum weight is the present problem of aeronautics. If the engine ceases to supply power the aeroplane has to descend and if this happens over a country devoid of suitable...
...Freshman football team practice yesterday consisted in a blackboard talk, a drill in formations and plays against the substitutes in which particular attention was paid to forming interference around the runner, and punting to the backfield. The backs were very weak in catching punts, Wendell being especially uncertain in this department. FIRST TEAM. SECOND TEAM. Browne, Houston, l.e. r.e., Whitney McKay, Bush, l.t. r.t., Davis L. Withington, l.g. r.g., Blake P. Withington, c. c., Barber Fisher, r.g. l.g., Knapp Fish, r.t. l.t., Coburn L. D. Smith, r.e. l.e., Blanchard Wigglesworth, O'Flaherty, q.b. q.b., Merrill Corbett, l.h.b. r.h.b., Tryon Leslie...
...Freshman football team held a light practice yesterday afternoon. The first squad was given a blackboard lecture on plays, followed by drill in catching punts and signal practice by two teams. The first string men were then sent to the Locker Building and the substitutes lined up against the second team in a short scrimmage in which the substitutes carried the ball to their opponents' 3-yard line but lost it there on a fumble...
...Freshman football team was put through its hardest practice of the year yesterday afternoon. After a half hour's demonstration of plays on the blackboard and a short signal drill, the first and second teams lined up against each other in a 30-minute scrimmage, divided into two 15-minute halves. Each team scored two touchdowns...