Word: secret
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last secret practice of this week was held by the University football squad in the Stadium yesterday afternoon. Owing to the hot weather, the work was short, and the squad was dismissed at 5 o'clock. A 15-minute scrimmage with the second team followed the usual breaking through and dummy practice. Coach Haughton is still sick in bed, but is expected on the field in a few days. Long and Johnson are both out of the game for a short time, the former with a wrenched ankle and the latter with a sprained wrist...
...second secret practice of the year, the University football team held a 35 minute scrimmage with the second team yesterday afternoon and defeated them, 13 to 0, scoring two touchdowns and a goal from placement. The first touchdown was the result of a recovered on-side kick by the University team on the second's 10-yard line. In three plays the touchdown was scored, T. Frothingham carrying the ball through the right side of the line-each time. The backfield was then changed, Potter playing quarterback and Pierce, Morrison and Tryon replacing the backs. After several plays, a forward...
...University football squad held the first secret practice of the year in the Stadium yesterday afternoon. Secret practice will be continued today and tomorrow and probably on the first three days of every week during the season. No scrimmage was held yesterday, and after a long black-board talk, the squad was drilled in several new plays. The linemen practiced breaking through, while the ends and backs were instructed by Coaches Haughton and Leary. J. W. Farley '99, H. Foster '07, and H. Fish, Jr., '10 were on the field and assisted the coaches. All the men were in first...
Theodore William Richards, a chemist who has weighed the atoms in his balance; an explorer to whom the elements of the universe have told their secret; a modest seer of things invisible...
...asserted in bold headlines that the Harvard biplane was "Wrecked in a Secret Trial at Night," and again that this was its "maiden flight, which resulted so unfortunately." In the first place, the machine was in no sense whatever "wrecked"; in the second place, there was no "secret trial at night"; and in the third, this was not its "maiden flight," as there was no attempt, either successful or unsuccessful, to leave the ground. The aeroplane was taken from its tent shortly before 8 o'clock Tuesday evening to try the running gear in preparation for the advertised trial flights...