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...first team practice began with a light signal dirll, in which all the plays were carefully studied out and executed. After this the linemen were given some practice bucking the line, as well as tackling the dummy. The backs, ends, and center, in the meantime, practiced kicking and forward passing. After this there was a short scrimmage with Team B, Team A playing on the defensive throughout the time. Team B was unable to score...
Dartmouth flattened McGill 52 to 0-a casual performance, for the Canadians are just discovering football. From end to end, the Dartmouth linemen tower tall, are no lightweights. Quarterback Dooley is well acquainted with his office and has real lightning to unleash in Hall and Oberlander. Rutgers accumulated the week's hugest score, 56 points, by commuting steadily through eleven scoreless sons of Lebanon...
...Harvard's best quarterback prospects are said to be Izzy Zarakov, Adolph Cheek, and Joe McGlone, all three of whom are dazzling broken field runners. Harvard's linemen, only one of whom has had first string varsity experience and that in a different position than he now occupies, are much smaller physically than those of former years, and in consequence, less apt to shine in the upstanding, hand-fighting game, and the fact that Robb, a Harvard sprint champion, has been assigned one of the end positions and another fast man the opposite wing position, would indicate that there will...
Following the blackboard talk on Tuesday, Roper ran his men through a lengthy signal drill, emphasizing slants off tackle and forward passes for the most part. The scrubs then took the ball and went through several Amherst formations while the coaches drilled the linemen individually in the playing of their respective positions on the defense...
...however, is still far larger than he wishes. Following the first scrimmages which he will hold in the middle of the week, he will probably again reduce the number by a third. Of those he retained yesterday, 19 are ends, 12 are backs, seven are quarterbacks, and 28 are linemen...