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After the talk the entire squad, dressed in sweat-clothes, went through a light workout on the field taking things easier than usual. The backs, ends, centers, and linemen all reported to their respective coaches for assignment instructions. A short-signal drill concluded the workout...
There will be a Fire Drill in three minutes, children. The Eighth Grade will form in two orderly lines in front of Escape 16. . . . Good morning, pupils. Attention. Stand. Now the morning calisthenics will begin. . . . Will Charles Robbins, Room number Nine, please report to the Principal's office. . . . Charles Robbins...
With the Freshmen and seconds providing the opposition, Harvard's football squad was given a thorough offensive drill yesterday afternoon. The University players will be sent into another short scrimmage today...
Yesterday's session consisted in a blackboard talk, individual coaching on assignment work, and a fifteen minute signal drill for three teams...
...contest revealed that the University squad possessed a fund of power and promising material, but the sustained drive, so essential for success in the series of hard games which concludes, the schedule, was not in evidence. Intensive drill alone can weld this Harvard machine into a well-coordinated unit capable of realizing its full strength. Only occasionally did the eleven click efficiently and only then could those who saw the clash get an idea of the promise which the aggregation holds for the future...