Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reported to Captain Mahan were for the most part very inexperienced, comparatively untutored in the rudiments of the game. With an exceptionally stiff schedule ahead, then, the problem confronting Coach Haughton last September was quickly to whip an eleven into shape and at the same time to drill fundamentals into a "green" squad. A kind Providence has proved lenient in keeping small the injured list, but the history of the season to date well shows the difficulties which the coaches have had to meet in handling the 1915 football problem...
Smith won the right to play Standish for the title by defeating Gore 20 to 0 on Tuesday. The Smith team is very heavy, and should win against their lighter opponents today. Standish held a signal drill yesterday afternoon and the Smith backs practiced passing...
This afternoon at 3.30 o'clock the University football team will enter the Stadium for the last time before the Yale game. The real work of preparation has been completed, and today's work-out will amount to nothing more than a signal drill for Teams A and B. Immediately after the practice the entire squad will leave Cambridge for the Vesper Country Club, on Tyng's Island, at Lowell, where the men will stay until Saturday morning...
...usual black-board talk proceeded the day's work, and following that came a kicking drill for Captain Mahan, Horween, and Robinson. The seconds, finishing their work for the season, put on a few Yale formations for the line, and the University wound up the afternoon with a fast signal practice, running hard and getting off its plays with great speed and precision...
...practice today consisted simply of a fast signal drill. Guernsey was given a short work-out at drop-kicking and performed consistently well. The coaches announced today that Allen would start the Harvard game at end-rush instead of Weidman, as the latter's injury will keep him out of the contest...