Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in tow years Coach Fred Mitchell is holding fall practice for his Crimson nine. The drill began yesterday afternoon on the Varsity diamond at Soldiers Field and will continue until cold weather arrives permanently...
Batting practice, which occupied the entire drill yesterday, will be stressed, along with infield practice throughout the fall. Mitchell also intends to schedule several games...
Making no division into Varsity and Junior Varsity players but obtaining a definite slant on the ability of his material from the daily scrimmages, Coach Richard Cresson Harlow is already well along in the second week of his intensive fail drill for the opening game with Springfield on October...
...battle for the guard and backfield positions is especially spirited. Cliff Wilson, a burly convert from last year's A team blocking back appears assured of one of the guard posts. In signal drill Russ Allen has been holding down the other, while in the scrimmages, from which Allen will be withheld until about Monday, Bob Downes succeeds Allen. Close behind him is Jee Nee and pressing him is Chuck Klein...
...spite of these breaks, the team went ahead with the full confidence of the college behind it. It won the two opening games, but after the Army power machine had rolled over, there was little enough left. Again Dick Harlow started at the beginning, again there was drill on fundamentals, again confidence had sunk...