Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been tentatively announced, will not manoeuvre on Soldiers Field before the football game with West Point next Saturday but will confine its pre-game demonstration to the customary march up the field, going under both goal posts. The West Point cadets are scheduled to entertain the spectators with their drill until the start of the game...
After this workout, Coach Horween carefully reviewed the mistakes of Saturday's game with the whole squad. He then gave the linemen a drill on fundamentals and spent some time in instructing the backs on the principles and-fine points of interfering...
...Bingham gave the opening chord of the athletics-for-all motif with the establishment of a class football squad, coached by former University players, thoroughly outfitted, and playing on fields of its own. Football can now be taken up at almost any time during the fall; an intensive grass drill as preliminary to each practice insures the newcomer against strain and the injuries of ill condition...
Yesterday afternoon's scrimmage for the University eleven was cancelled when Coach Horween was unexpectedly called to New York on business. Defensive practice, dummy scrimmage, and signal drill were substituted as the Crimson eleven started its final drive for the season's opener against Springfield on Saturday...
...strenuous session of defensive drill opened yesterday's workout. A 40 minute dummy scrimmage was next in order, with one important change in the lineup. R. H. O'Connell '29 was promoted to an end berth on Team A, and it seems likely that this change may be permanent. So far this year, he has been tried out at center and guard, but not with much success. O'Connell's stead rise since his shift to the end squad would seem to point to his holding down one of the wing posts during the fall campaign. During the workout, special...