Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gridiron seriously interferred with football practice yesterday afternoon. Coach Haughton gave the men a long blackboard talk, after which team A went into the baseball cage for signal practice. The men went through their regular formations to perfect the old plays and then tried out a number of new ones. The work was very snappy throughout. While the squad was at work in the Cage, the second-string backs were given punting practice in the Stadium...
...being a shift of Potter from team A to team B, and a corresponding shift of Wigglesworth to quarterback on team A. From kick formations the teams were put through offensive and defensive plays, breaking through, and blocking. All the work was on the Freshman field as the Stadium gridiron was to wet for play
Graduate Manager Everard Thompson has started constructing a new gridiron on the ground opposite Yale Field which Yale has recently bought. It is supposed that a stadium will be built in this site, but this fall it will be used as an auxiliary field. Some of the practice of the regular squad may be held there. The regular gridiron on Yale Field has been returfed and graded with an eye to per-feet drainage, and there is talk of saving this field for the scheduled games and holding much of the preliminary practice on the new gridiron. Yale men believe...
...fence has been erected around the track at the open end of the Stadium and the gridiron has been marked out so that the squad will move to the regular field...
...first scrimmage in the spring football practice was held on the Freshman gridiron on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Coach Haughton divided the squad into two teams and, after 20 minutes of signal drill, lined them against each other for 20 minutes of hard scrimmage. Straight football was employed most of the time. A few forward passes were tried but they were for the most part unsuccessful. The feature of the play was a 70-yard run by Graustein on an intercepted forward pass. The teams lined up as follows: TEAM A. TEAM B. Lingard, l.e. r.e., Bradley Starr...