Word: drilling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cage where dummy scrimmages and signal practice were held. The men who played Saturday, though dressed for practice, did not take part in this work. A let-up of a few minutes in the rain enabled Teams B and C to go into the Stadium for a brief signal drill...
Thirty-four candidates for the University soccer team reported yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field to Captain C. W. Heath '22. Since no scrimmaging will be held until Coach Burgess arrives on Tuesday, the squad was put through a stiff drill in the fundamentals of dribbling and passing...
Coach Campbell of the 1925 football squad continued to give his men more advanced work yesterday afternoon when he ordered line scrimmages for the first time since practice began. Four lines, picked from the best material on the field, were put through this drill, under the supervision of line-coach W. B. Snow '18 and W. H. Trumble '15, who came over from the Stadium to assist the Freshman staff...
...backfield men repeated Thursday's tactics of lining up and going through signal drill yesterday. Coach Murray of the quarterback squad is fast weeding out the weaker men under his charge and expects, by the middle of next week, to devote the greater part of his time to the half dozen candidates who have shown the best qualifications for the position...
Coach Campbell gave the Freshman football candidates more advanced work yesterday than has been the case in the three previous practices. He assigned to his backfield men an entire half of the field, lined them up in groups of four, and put them through a stiff signal drill, paying especial attention to the quarterbacks. He will repeat the same tactics today and may coach his linesman in the signal work also...