Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driving wind and rain which flooded Soldiers Field and saturated players and coaches, did not bring any rest from hard scrimmaging to Coach Fisher's pupils. After a preliminary drill in the cage, the Crimson coach pitted his squad against Coach Knox's scrappy second eleven. In order to save the turf in the Stadium field for tomorrow's game, the battle was staged on the Freshman gridiron, which was in a drenched condition better suited to water polo than football...
University A and the second eleven battled without scoring in the first quarter-hour of a 50-minute scrimmage, but Coach Fisher's substitutes crossed the black goal line twice for the only score in the later part of the daily tussle on Soldiers Field. There was the usual program of "skull practice," rudimentary drill, and signal practice before the actual scrimmaging began...
Havemeyer was back at center today, but Coach Fisher left his Team A backfield unaltered, with Humphrey and Gratwick still on the bench, replaced by Chapin and Owen. Gaston and Macomber started the scrimmage as wings...
After an exchange of punts and a session of straight football by both elevens, featured by a 30-yard run by Owen, Coach Fisher put Team B on the field, giving them the ball on their own 20-yard line...
...Coach Fisher will be without four of his quarterbacks today, when Conlon, Davis and H. B. Humphrey Jr. will report to Coach Knox, and Wharton will be tried as a halfback on the first squad. Hartley and Dejonge, ends, Angier, half back, and Reynolds, guard, were also dropped, while Francis Rouillard '23, substitute back on his Freshman eleven, wore a red jersey for the first time yesterday...