Word: blackboarding
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...Princeton team of having, intentionally and with malice afore-thought, inflicted damage to his big brother's nose, to the cost of $1000. This was all done by means of making the Princeton players familiar with the outlines of Jim Braden's nose from photographs, blue-prints and blackboard drawings. "Whenever you see that nose, sock it", the young gentlemen from Princeton were instructed...
...golf, calls it an old man's game. 3) He went into politics. First he ran for town clerk of Elwood, Ind. His opponents, finding that his schooling consisted of one year, said that he was too ignorant for the office. Whereupon, he began to carry a blackboard with him when he made speeches and asked any schoolteacher present to give him an examination. He was the only Republican elected in Elwood in that campaign. The only other public office he held before being appointed Secretary of Labor was county recorder...
...member of the football advisory board. Soon Wesleyan teams began to baffle their cumbersome rush-line opponents with crafty off-tackle plunges, with neat crisscross plays. People began to talk of a lean history professor, who did no active field coaching but who had an impressive little blackboard...
...University football squad was the guest of the Metropolitan Theatre last night for an unusual blackboard session. The coaches hoped that the team might profit from Richard Dix's new college comedy. "The Quarterback," inasmuch as the cinema was directed by Coach Yost of the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor football mentor had full charge of coaching the screen teams and filming the production to which, the players were invited...
...long blackboard talk yesterday was followed by the kicking drill, while the linemen were sent through their paces by Coach Tierney, Trumbull, and Hubbard. Later the linemen rejoined the backs for signal practice, after which the second team put on a demonstration of Yale plays. Crawford, Cozzens, Goldenson, and Donaldson played the roles of the Eli carriers...