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...usual punting and point kicking drill was followed by work on the dummies yesterday, one of the best blocking and tacking practices of the season. Pass offense was next on the docket, with the eight "first string" backs alternating passes against the C team. Two "Navy" team then took the field to give the Varsity defense a final checking. Kicking under pressure and signal running completed the afternoon's schedule...
Harlow experimented with new backfield combinations in the drill and came up at the end with two new ones. The first is composed of Boston, Roberts, Stuart, and Struck and the second is made up of Wilson, Oakes, McTernen, and Watt...
During the winter months about 150 men are constantly at work repairing the building and furniture. Blacksmiths, carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, metal-workers, and mechanics are in demand. Besides the customary machines the Maintenance Shops have engines that drill square holes, air pumps which suck away shavings, steam heaters to soften lumber, and knife-edge power wood cutters which, if misrun, could hurl a razor-like slug of tool steel right through the operator. Roofing, metal shaping, forging, pipe drilling, and key making, are some of the activities at the river-front shops. In the familiar yellow building...
There was light work for the Varsity squad yesterday, as the tapering off process for the Virginia game began. Defensive play doping against the C "Virginia" team featured the afternoon work, followed by punting under pressure and signal drill...
Each student is supposed to allot to Military Science drill ten afternoons a year. This scanty time is split up between horsemanship, foot drills working 75mm guns, and practice with miniature cannons. Too much attempted and nothing accomplished is indicative of the whole department, as the student has no time to learn any one subject well...