Word: secret
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last secret practice of the 1911 University football team was held in the Stadium yesterday afternoon. Today's practice will be open to the University and will end the preparation for the Yale game. Immediately after this afternoon's practice, which will consist in a general exhibition of plays and punting, the men will leave for Lowell, to spend the night at the Vesper Country Club. They will return sometime Saturday noon, probably just after lunch...
...Haven, Conn., November 14, 1911.--In secret practice today the Yale team went through a hard drill, the coaches taking part in the scrimmage. The second team tried out several typical Princeton plays against the first. After the Princeton game on Saturday the players will go to Meriden, Conn., where they will be the guests of the Highland Country Club...
...Haven, Conn., November 13, 1911.-- The Yale football squad held only a light secret practice on Yale Field this afternoon, consisting of a short signal drill for the whole squad, blocking for the linemen, and kicking drill for the punters. The coaches also gave the men a long talk before sending them on the field, in which they pointed out the faults of Saturday's game with Brown...
...this week and a mass meeting or song practice every night next week would not be any too many. And let us have more than that! Let there be open practice for at least the last 15 minutes of two days each week. Is not the system of uninterrupted secret practice, every day, too commercial for a college football team? Give us a chance not only to have our loyalty aroused by mass meetings, but let us each gain a personal enthusiasm in the team and every player by getting in closer touch with them at their practices...
...next and at the same time the most crucial game before that with Yale, will be the Brown game on next Saturday. It is an open secret that Coach Robinson is out to defeat the University team, as last year it was his ambition to vanquish Yale. All his preparations have been made with this end in view and it is expected that he will uncover the plays which he considers effective for this purpose...