Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hanover, N. H. October 21, 1924. In the first strenuous practice since the Yale game the Varsity went through a hard signal drill and a long dummy scrimmage against the scrubs who used Harvard plays. There were two important shifts in the line-up of team A, Fallon replacing Dooley at quarterback and Holleran taking Goldstein's place at left tackle...
...Haven, Conn., Oct. 16. The Yale University team had its last workout yesterday in preparation for the Dartmouth game Saturday. The work consisted of signal drill and dummy scrimmage between the first and second teams...
...other hand Greenough and Cheek are the only Crimson men on the first lineup who have ever opposed the Vermonters before. Two changes in the lineup that Coach Fisher had announced earlier in the day were made after yesterday's signal drill. These were Lindner, the lanky 190-pound tackle, for Nash, who is still too stiff to play, and Chase in place of Dean at end. It is this same group of forwards that held the scrubs for downs on seven occasions in one of the midweek scrimmages...
...retain your tender sensibilities. You are too active, and have got out of control. ... You don't mean to be bad, after all, and you were born a good child. I love you all the same. But nevertheless you are too arrogant. . . . You are giving military drill to your girls. Shame! You are making military preparations day and night. Against whom? Whom are you afraid of? Of Japan...
Following the blackboard talk on Tuesday, Roper ran his men through a lengthy signal drill, emphasizing slants off tackle and forward passes for the most part. The scrubs then took the ball and went through several Amherst formations while the coaches drilled the linemen individually in the playing of their respective positions on the defense...