Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University football squad was the last to be open to the public, for several weeks of secret practice begin this afternoon. It was attended by the full squad of the first two teams. No scrimmage was held, the coaches spending the time largely in oral instruction and signal drill...
After a signal practice, teams A and B underwent a drill in offensive and defensive playing, witnessed by the remainder of the squad. The players returned to the Locker Building after an hour of outdoor work...
...Yale squad has been receiving most thorough drill in fundamentals, Coach Hinckey being determined to eradicate the major weakness of the past two seasons, and to avoid having to revert in the middle of the season to elementary points. No great amount of attention has yet been given to scrimmage formations...
Thirty-five men reported to Captain Brickley yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field for the first day of spring football practice. The work consisted principally of drill in the fundamentals of the game and forward passing. H. R. Snyder '05, the originator of the forward pass at Harvard, who has been coaching the Western Reserve College team of Ohio for the past eight years, coached the backs and ends in this branch of the game, while Head Coach Percy Haughton was further assisted by F. J. Bradlee '15, F. J. O'Brien '14, S. B. Pennock '15, W. H. Trumbull...
...fact one rarely sees a professional show where there is so much good dancing. Everyone dances, and dances well and does it not as a drill but because they all enjoy it. If De Ford needs the money he should get an introduction to Miss Joan Sawyer; it is rumored that she is looking for a dancing partner. But it seems invidious to pick out individuals when the general level is so high. One performance should convince anybody that in this tango era of ours not all the Castles are in Spain...