Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practice yesterday consisted mainly in drill in the fundamentals of the game and conditioning work. The Crimson coaches are stressing particularly the ability to pass accuately, for it is upon this phase of the game, the coaches believe, that a team's speed and scoring power depend. As in the opening practice, the players were divided into two squads, Coach Wachter taking the experienced material while Assistant Coach Tolbert worked with the new candidates. No scrimmages will be held until next week, at least, and then the teams selected will be merely temporary...
...Stadium, Soldiers Field, Nov. 19.--At 1.05 o'clock the Yale and Harvard squads ran on the field for their respective preliminary practice. Five minutes later the Yale band followed and took up position in front of the Yale section and played several of the Eli songs. The preliminary drill for both squads consisted of passing and drop-kicking. At 1.25 o'clock the Yale squad left the field for the locker building, followed shortly after by the Harvard players. At 1.30 the University band marched on the field in "H" formation, playing "Harvardiana", "Soldiers Field" and "The Gridiron King...
During the last week light practices have been in order at the Stadium. Long dummy scrimmages with Coach Knox's men have been a daily feature of the workouts, with usually a rather long signal drill to wind up the afternoon
...second University team and the Scrubs held a scrimmage today, but the first team had a signal drill only. It was not planned to give the team too hard a workout in the first practice after a big game...
...spite of the pouring rain and slippery condition of the field, Coach Campbell sent the Freshmen through a stiff signal drill and dummy scrimmage yesterday afternoon. The 1925 second team was again called into service to demonstrate Eli plays, while the coaches pointed out to their charges the most effective way to break up the various formations. Although the greater part of the work-out was held under the shelter of the Stadium, during the last part of the afternoon the men were sent out to work in the open, for skill in handling a wet and slippery ball...