Word: secret
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...football practice yesterday afternoon, which was entirely secret, the men who played in the Brown game last Saturday were worked very lightly, Lockwood and Wendell being given a day's rest. The University team substitutes and the second team had a 20-minute scrimmage in which the first eleven scored two touchdowns. The first was made by straight rushing, the second on a fumble by Graydon on Hall's attempted drop kick for the first team, Nourse falling on the ball over the line. Starr kicked both the goals from touchdowns. White was tried at right halfback in the scrimmage...
...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 1.--Secret practice for the university football team this afternoon lasted for an hour and a quarter. A 25-minute half was played against the freshmen, in which the university team scored three times and the freshmen once. The freshmen scored their touchdown by a fifty-yard run after recovering a fumble, but the university team by straight football...
...account of the hard game last Saturday the University eleven was worked very lightly in the secret practice yesterday afternoon, but the first team substitutes and the second team had a 20-minute scrimmage in which the substitutes made three touchdowns on the second. The forward pass and the onside kick hardly ever failed to give the ball to the first eleven, and these plays were used several times with great success. The weather was cool and bracing and there was considerable snap in the playing...
...University football squad had a very long secret practice yesterday afternoon, which was devoted to work on some new plays and to teaching the men how to tackle a man in the open field after a punt. There was no scrimmage. Burr, Hall, Newhall, Parker and Starr had a long kicking practice, trying goals from placement, drop kicks and punts. Burr's punts and place kicks were excellent. After the secret practice the first squad was divided up into two elevens for signal practice and work on the forward pass. All sorts of line rushes were tried, and later...
This afternoon, after a short period of secret work, there will be the usual long open practice...