Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easterns last year, Dick Thomas, and Bill Tyng. Meanwhile, two sophomores look likely for spots on the team for the first match: Tom Rogstadt, heavyweight grappler on the Freshman outfit last year, and Lee Ackerman, Freshman wrestling coach, has also been giving his yardling strongmen a vigorous drill, for they open their season on the same Saturday. The Freshman outfit looks strong potentially and should turn in a better season than last year's Yardlings...
...view of the current complaints of professionalism in big-time football, and of the machine-like drill it demands, it is refreshing to note that intercollegiate football can be played on a definitely small time basis and purely for its own sake, without the paraphernalia of publicity. And if the introduction of extensive intramural competition with Yale has done much to increase the success of House football, this might well be further extended in the other House sports...
...spite of the statistics Coach Carr said he felt "pretty good." His boys had plenty of pep in a snappy kicking drill yesterday and he can't help being encouraged by the fact that all injuries have cleared up so that the ranks will be full. Even Bill Edgar, who has been on crutches from an ankle injury received in the Springfield game, will be ready for action...
...American Education Week, and its slogan this year was "Education for the Common Defense." Visitors saw much flag-saluting, heard much anthem-singing. But beyond that, they found educators confused, uncertain what had to be done. Disquieting to progressives was a Spartan trend toward calisthenics instead of games, military drill for boys, more homework, less music...
...Executing the order with precision, they came to a halt exactly in the battalion front, buttocks toward the major in command, faces to a concrete wall. Quickly Captain Jimmy, summoning all his military experience (until Aug. 1: three weeks of active duty at Quantico, Va.; one night a week drill, several hours a week of administrative duty), squeaked "About Face," while seasoned sergeants winced, looked down their noses...