Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrimmage sent the three varsity elevens against the jayvees--first in a purely passing drill, then mixed running and passing. The three quarterbacks--Carrell Lowenstein, Gil O'Nell, and Hardy Cox handled the passing. The varsity's running attack was unspectacular, although Dave Wardon and Johnny West contributed some commendable work. Fritz Drill, a recent addition to the varsity squad, ran with the third team and caught several of COX's passes for sizable gains...
Practice has been devoted largely to conditioning members and holding routine drill on fundamentals, with some intra-squad scrimmaging and running of plays from the T and winged-T formations...
While Carroll Lowenstein and Gil O'Neil fired passes in an offensive drill, "Kermit Tracy," as simulated by jayvee back Ed Finney, aimed in the direction of a skeleton varsity defense. Finney is not so good a passer as Tracy, the Columbia quarterback, so the pass defense was not really challenged...
...Passing drill featured yesterday's workout as the varsity football squad began the final week's practice for the season opener with Columbia this Saturday...
Backs ran hard and linemen tackled hard; and when the band, holding its first marching drill of the season, piped up with "Harvardiana" and "Hard Luck on Poor Old Eli," backs ran a little harder and linemen moved a little faster too. Still, it is difficult to picture Stanford entering the Stadium this afternoon to open the 1950 football season hero...