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...long signal drill combined with a dummy scrimmage intended to get all the plays to perfection was the fare of the Harvard football squad in its workout yesterday. The session was calm compared with the scrimmage of the day before but Coach Horween's men will get another good workout today when they mix with the Freshmen...
Insult. The spectacle of British actors speaking British-translated lines from a Dutch drama on an American stage is likely to become confusing. So marked are the types in Jan Fabricius' play that one feels the mummers have mislaid the Sam Browne belts, pith helmets and khaki drill uniforms of England's tropical troops, adorning themselves by some unfortunate mistake in the wardrobe department with the pot caps and gaiters of the Dutch East Indies colonial army. This is rather a weighty matter since the costuming in such an absurd play as Insult is a necessary adjunct to the silly...
Practice began with the usual drill in fundamentals. Coach Bradford worked with a small end squad of three men, Harvard, Ogden, and Baldwin, of whom only Harding and Ogden were in condition for scrimmage. Line coaches drilled their men in blocking and breaking through, while the backs had a workout at forward and lateral passing...
Harvard's first squad eased off after the hard scrimmages of the last few days yesterday and resorted to a drill similar to that gone through the first few days. Coach Horween ordered nothing but fundamental drills and gave his squad a rest in preparation for the tiff with the seconds today...
...workout. This is without doubt the largest number that has reported for Freshman football in the last number of years and is encouraging in that this year's class may atone for the showing of last year's Freshmen on the gridiron. After going through calisthenics and a short drill for the linemen and backs most of the Freshmen were sent in in order to be able to attend the first meeting of English...