Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...today and tomorrow remaining before the football team leaves Boston, practice has assumed the most intensive form possible without resorting to a real scrimmage. To facilitate practice, the entire squad moved out to the Commonwealth Armory, where an enclosed surface 225 feet by 175 feet gave ample room for drill. Yesterday the men ran through their second practice there and worked the same points which have busied them since practice was resumed after the Yale game. In addition, the drill was lengthened out to permit the coaches to show the two teams all they know about characteristic Oregon plays...
...middle-aged" graduate of the College can remember, Copey's readings have been an essential part of the life of the University. Through the trying years of the war we were able to struggle along without sugar and coal, we willingly gave up our afternoons to close order drill, and even renounced our hereditary privilege of beating Yale on the gridiron. But exist without readings from "Copey" we could...
...Eddie" Mahan '16 aided Coaches Fisher and Parmenter in putting the squad through a hard drill yesterday. A short talk by Fisher was followed by punting practice, in which Humphrey, Church, Felton, and R. Horween kicked long spirals to Murray, Gratwick, Casey, Hamilton, and the other backs...
Next the team retired to the Cage, where the backs threw the ball around, while the two lines opposed each other in "breaking through" practice. Then the whole squad ran onto the field and was given a long signal drill...
...Wednesday or Thursday the foot ball team will oppose western plays if present plans come through. An assortment of Oregon tactics is on the way East and is due to arrive tomorrow Coach Knox will then collect a team from his squad of second-string men, drill it in the new plays for one afternoon, and the next day pit it against the University team in a dummy scrimmage...