Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today's practice will be the final stiff workout before the men start tapering off for the opening game, only a light drill being on tap for tomorrow and a short signal drill filling the bill on Friday. With the line practically picked only the four backfield positions remain to be filled. Definite announcement of the eleven starting players will be made tomorrow...
Bates will arrive here on Friday morning and will take a short drill on the Stadium turf in the afternoon. That the team from Maine will be no setup is shown by the fact that their forward wall, led by 218-pound Harris Howe, giant tackle, averages 188 pounds. Their backfield however is extremely light, averaging only 155 per man. This is mainly due to the fact that Borstein, diminutive little quarter-back, weighs only 119 pounds...
...count of scores was kept in yesterday's grind. The various plays in the Crimson repertoire were run off and Coach Horween called the ball back regularly in order to analyze the carrying out of assignments and to give individual instruction. A thorough drill on offensive and defensive tactics was undertaken, the major emphasis being placed on the former. The Harvard mentor gave out two new plays which were tested in skeleton drill and then under actual fire...
...teams lined up as follows in the signal drill yesterday: Team A. Douglas, l. e., Barrett. i. t., Trainer, l. g., Gildea, c., W. Ticknor, r. g., Davis, r. t., O'Connell, r. e., Putnam, q. b., Mays, l. h., Harper, r. h., Potter...
...teams wound up the afternoon with a few minutes signal drill in which Putnam. Wetmore and Gleason led the A, B, and C combinations, respectively. Ben Ticknor reported with blistered feet and was excused from the drill, Gildea taking his place on Team A, and Cunningham moving up to Team B. Art Devens then jumped into the gap at center on Team...