Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...light in view of yesterday's stiff practice, and it is probable that other regulars will be given the day off to prevent any chance of their becoming over trained. Thursday and Friday will be occupied in a final rehearsal of the plays and the coaches will give long blackboard drills to explain the entire assortment of formations...
With important games scheduled for this Saturday, the informals and Freshman football squads spent yesterday in correcting the errors made against the Camp Devens Depot Brigade and the Worcester Academy elevens. Both Coach Rollins and Coach Wallace prefaced work on the field with blackboard talks illustrating weak points. The Freshmen on the field spent the greater part of the time in perfecting defence formations against the forward pass, as this was the chief defect in the work of the team on Saturday. With the informals in the Stadium the light workout consisted principally in punting for the backs, and breaking...
Blagdon, Trumbull, Wigglesworth, S. Curtis, Logan, Felton, Withington and Fisher joined the coaching staff today. The rest of the squad arrived at 6 tonight and later in the evening all the men were present at a blackboard talk. This completed the team's preparations for the game. The players and coaches are in fine spirits, and no nervousness is apparent. The team will leave for New Haven tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock
After a prolonged blackboard talk in which the coaches emphasized the mistakes of last Saturday's game, the University football team went into the Stadium and ran through signals for over an hour. The work was light as is usual on Mondays for the regulars, but team C was scrimmaged against the second team. The ball was given to team C in the middle of the field but the seconds recovered a fumble and advanced to the University's 20-yard line where the ball was lost on downs. W. Willcox '17 was given the signal for a run around...
...soggy field and a chilly wind slowed up football practice yesterday afternoon. The usual blackboard talk was held and the various positions were gone over by Field Coach L. H. Leary '05. The work on the field was necessarily of a light nature. The ends were given practice running down under kicks and the backs were instructed in receiving punts. In spite of the heavy balls the kicking was unusually good. The line was under the direct charge of Coach Leary, who gave them easy drill in breaking through. The whole squad tackled the dummies, the line being directed...