Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Providence, R. I., October 26, 1911.--The Brown squad held light practice on Andrews Field today after yesterday's hard scrimmage. A long signal drill to familiarize the men with the details of play formed the chief part of it. Gelb played at right tackle, and Metcalf at right halfback, where he showed up exceptionally well on the offence...
Light work was the order for the University football team in yesterday's practice. The backfield men reported half an hour early for individual coaching, which was followed by departmental drill for the other members of the squad. After about 20 minutes of this work the University team was lined up against the substitutes for a scrimmage. The ball was placed in midfield and was shifted from one team to another as the coaches saw fit, thus giving all the men practice in both offensive and defensive play...
There was no scoring as the ball was not left in one team's possession long enough to let it get far from the middle of the field. Following the scrimmage the squad was given 15 minutes' fast signal drill...
...Freshman team was put through a hard drill yesterday afternoon, over an hour being spent in punting, trying formations for the forward pass, and individual instruction in line-breaking. After this there followed a 40-minutes scrimmage between the first and second teams in which the first scored four times. Then the substitutes were sent in against the second team, but in a session of hard scrimmage were unable to score...
...Freshman football team was given light practice yesterday afternoon. After a short blackboard talk, the squad was given a drill at the tackling dummies. A dummy scrimmage between the first team and substitute followed, in which particular attention was given to formations for protecting the punter. The first team then held a snappy signal practice. A game was played between the substitutes and the second team which the former won by the score...