Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dummy tackling was inaugurated in Freshman football practice yesterday. The squad, still numbering close to 100 were put through a stiff drill in tacking as well as the more elementary work of passing and staring. During the first part of the afternoon the kickers received instruction in punting, while the backs practiced catching the ball. The wet field and slippery balls necessarily slowed up the work considerably. Coach J. F. Ryan '19 has not yet divided his squad up into elevens and no formal scrimmages have taken place...
...driving wind and rain which flooded Soldiers Field and saturated players and coaches, did not bring any rest from hard scrimmaging to Coach Fisher's pupils. After a preliminary drill in the cage, the Crimson coach pitted his squad against Coach Knox's scrappy second eleven. In order to save the turf in the Stadium field for tomorrow's game, the battle was staged on the Freshman gridiron, which was in a drenched condition better suited to water polo than football...
...eleven battled without scoring in the first quarter-hour of a 50-minute scrimmage, but Coach Fisher's substitutes crossed the black goal line twice for the only score in the later part of the daily tussle on Soldiers Field. There was the usual program of "skull practice," rudimentary drill, and signal practice before the actual scrimmaging began...
Coach Fisher gave the University eleven light practice yesterday after their torrid work-out against Holy Cross Saturday. After a long talk in the Locker Building, in which the mistakes of the game were pointed out and discussed, the University squad was given the usual routine practice and signal drill. Team A lined up just as they opened the Holy Cross game, except that Hamilton and Faxon temporarily replaced Captain Horween and Sedgwick, both of whom were looking on in street clothes, resting up from the effects of Saturday's heat...
...first 10 days of instruction were devoted to close order drill, diamounted; topography, equitation, gun drill and pistol firing. For firing with the 3-inch guns the battery was organized into gun sections, with the members of the advanced course acting as the battery commander's detail. Two gun sections were composed entirely of men from the University, with H.H. Hudson '23 and E.A. Norman '23 acting as section chiefs...