Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work yesterday afternoon was confined to individual work. Ralph Horween '18, brother of the head coach and backfield tutor, had his charges punting early in the afternoon, while the ends were sent down under the kicks. Following a brief rest the squad was put through a hard, breaking through drill and then sent to work on the tackling dummy...
Later in the afternoon the backs and ends were put through a forward passing drill. It is no secret that department will come in for a large measure of attention under the new coaching system. The ends are under the tutelage of C. R. Carney, one of the greatest ends ever turned out in the Big Ten Conference, who was an All-American choice while playing his last year at the University of Illinois in 1920. J. N. Barbee '28, one of the most accurate passers of last year's squad, has not yet reported for practice, Madison Sayles...
...James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through to the prisoners. Hard rock smashed the drill-bits. The mine pump failed. It was 153 hours (six days and a half) before Salem rejoiced and the victims, still alive and astonishingly cheerful, lay in the first aid station having their mud-caked clothes cut from their backs. In their cloth...
...Recessional" sound like a nursery rhyme. Then he was sent to a cavalry camp as a corporal, to fortify his stomach by sleeping near horses and to acquire respect for the Chinese puzzle that is French army discipline. It just happened that he could punch, ride, shoot, drill, sleep, spy, drink, disguise, obey, command and love-his-country better than any one else in that camp, and that his sense of humor had been developed on the famed playing-fields of Eton. So he was soon promoted to posts of great importance, intriguing with desert tribes across the Mediterranean...
...Boom" went the drums, the horns brayed, the feet shuffled, the crowd clapped, "Boom, Boom, BOOM. . . ." To the music of many bands, with 100 floats, drill teams, drum corps, 100,000 Elks paraded through the streets of Chicago. Every one of them was smiling. Every one of them had on his badge. They were partaking in the big parade that marked the third day of their 62nd National Convention, held last week...