Word: drills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Columbia game postponed because of wet grounds the squad had retired to drill indoors, where an informal game was in progress at the time Carr broke his leg. A leading utility man, the erstwhile hockey star will be out of action for an indefinite time...
...Chalk Drill...
Soggy fields and a cold drizzle drove the gridsters into the cage yesterday afternoon for their first post-vacation practice. Due to cramped quarters, the squad was divided into five teams and run through signal drill for the entire session...
...University of California resentment against compulsory R. 0. T. C. bubbled up embarrassingly while the University was solemnly holding its annual Charter Day Exercises on the Berkeley campus. Armed with a plebiscite in which 70% of the students voted for voluntary rather than compulsory R. O. T. C. drill, an undergraduate delegation marched before the Board of Regents to debate the point. Twenty minutes after the hearing closed the Board issued a neatly typed announcement that its hands were tied by the terms of the University trust, that in any case compulsory R. O. T. C. training was "a sound...
Usually Spring practices are very informal affairs with little drill on anything but signals and setting-up exercises. Not so under the second year of the Harlow regime. With a plethora of assistant coaches the men are put through intensive drill which includes everything from dummy dodging to running backwards...