Word: drills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long kicking, passing, and defensive drills took up most of yesterday's practice time. Then after a short kick-off rehearsal, the three elevens separated for a signal drill...
...scrimmage Freddy Jerome and Rick Hedblom went in for Boston and Wilson who were merely being given a day of grace. In the signal drill, one of the most sparkling of the fall, Boston and Wilson were put back...
...figure of 5,100,000 on the day Il Duce and Der Fuhrer keynoted in a heavy rain. This soddened everything but the Nordic cheers of their vast open-air audience nearly 1,000,000 of whom were Germans who had got up at 7 a.m. to march and drill all day in their Nazi organizations before they took their stand to hear the speeches at 7 p.m. As a furious cloudburst came down Mussolini made a quick remark to Hitler who gestured and a rainproof was at once thrown about the shoulders of each Dictator, although their glitteringly apparalled...
...Equipment and uniforms were equally scanty; the men wore mostly overalls and windbreakers, had one antiquated Hotchkiss gun for the whole company to train on. (Later, on the eve of their first engagement, they wangled Lewis guns, had a day to learn the new mechanism before going into action.) Drill commands were in French, which only half the men understood. Food was determinedly, indigestibly Spanish...
...punting drill, Captain Russ Allen stepped back from his guard position to boot a few. His average was easily the best of the day, and if he continues to punt well his services may be enlisted by the backfield quartet on third and fourth downs, as well as after touchdowns. It was he who kicked the crucial point after the second touchdown against Princeton last fall...