Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather yesterday drove Coach Fisher and his men into the cage until very late in the afternoon when a brief snappy signal drill was held on the outfield of the baseball diamond. Today teams A and B will only go through kicking practice and a short signal work-out in order to be all primed to face Holy Cross tomorrow before the largest crowd that ever packed the Stadium for an October game...
...Freshman football team opens its season against Andover Academy at Andover at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. The last practice before the game was held on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon and consisted mainly in light signal drill. In addition to this light work-out there was considerable practice at kicking and forward passing. Coach T. J. Campbell '12 will hold his team down to the fundamentals in this first game of the season and little forward passing will be done by the 1927 eleven. Up to the present time the team has scrimmaged against the scrubs and the second team...
...with an hour long scrimmage for all 56 members of the squad, Coach Fisher will start pointing the eleven today toward the opening encounter with Rhode Island State on Saturday. Today will see Coach Knox's blackshirts in the Stadium for the first time, but before the week's drill is over the structure will hold no novelty for the scrubs who are to get a full dose of football before the week...
Although a close battle is not expected, much interest will attach to the football game in New York this afternoon between the reorganized Columbia eleven of Coach P. D. Haughton '99, and the team from Ursinus College. In this encounter the effects of the drill given the somewhat disorganized Columbia team by the former Crimson gridiron mentor will first be seen under actual fire. Much attention will also be paid to the question of whether or not he will use the same type of game as he employed so successfully while at the University...
...during this time of year", continued Colonel kromer, "that the majority of the members of the R. O. T. C. are able to participate in the organization's activities, as there are then comparatively few engaged in athletics. But because of the lack of indoor facilities, riding, gun drill, and pistol practice must be postponed until spring when only a fraction of the men who could take part in these activities in winter are able to do so at this time. Thus, of course, the benefits derived from R. O. T. C. training would be greatly extended if some form...