Word: blackboarding
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...style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This was Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead, bridge-expert. The people with him were all students in his course for bridge teachers. When he or some other expert was not explaining plays to them, or diagraming special hands, they spent the time playing bridge. At the end of a five-day meeting...
...device to take the place of the timeworn chalk and blackboard or checkerboard for use in football skull practice has been developed by Mr. N. W. Fradd, Director of Hemenway Gymnasium and instructor in Physical Education...
...were kept at it consistently throughout the whole afternoon. A great deal of time was devoted to individual instruction after which Horween and Casey took the backs and ends and formed a skeleton team and the linemen were taken over by Coaches Dunne and Hubbard. A blackboard talk on line play followed for the linemen after which they worked out on the machines...
...daily exercises are unpleasant requirements, but their abolition would probably increase the difficulty of the course. Some substitute method, however, would be very desirable, even the high school method of holding students responsible for explaining any assigned problem on the blackboard, if that were practicable...
Many and many a famed stalwart besides Christian Keener Cagle was last week watching plays being diagnosed upon a blackboard and making phantom first downs across an empty field and plunging ferociously at a tackling dummy. Yale heard that Freddy Loeser would play center this season despite the fact that he fractured his skull in an automobile accident during the summer. At Annapolis was Johnny Gannon who helped the Navy tie Michigan last year. Discarding the huddle system, Columbia rehearsed two crack, barking quarterbacks, Liflander and Joyce. Princeton's fleet Eddie Wittmer turned up, sole survivor of a first...