Word: signal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...themselves, selected partly on their past record, and treated with a novel tenderness, shall let up in their individual efforts, and fall into fatally listless habits. The other is that the coaches, unconsciously influenced by the same radical change, shall fail to infuse enough energy into the signal practice and short line-ups. After all the real object of the change is this-to get the chance to train the same men together until they can be turned into a perfect machine. Of course then, if practice be short, it must be so much the better in quality...
Yesterday's practice consisted only of signal practice by the 'Varsity and the second eleven. The men went through the work with considerable energy and, except in the case of a few new plays, the team got well together and the plays were smooth, succeeding each other with commendable rapidity. Cochrane was at quarter, Brown at right half, Burden at centre, and Donald at right tackle...
...encouraging. In all sixty of the men who had handed in their names as candidates came out, and one new man, H. H. Peyton. The squads were given their regular practice in tackling, falling on the ball and punting, after which they were lined up and given practice in signal work...
...most discouraging practice of the football season was the work of the 'Varsity eleven yesterday afternoon. The work began with the usual five starts by twos and falling on the ball. This was followed by the regular signal practice. The 'Varsity lined up for its work in the following order: Cabot, l. e.; Wheeler, l. t.; Bouve, l. g.; Burden, c.; Shaw, r. g.; Donald, r. t.; Moulton, r. e.; Garrison, q. b.; Dibblee, l. h. b.; Brown, r. h. b.; Haughton...
...football practice yesterday consisted of the regular 8-pound iron dumbbell drill followed by starting and running in the forenoon, and of wooden dumb-bell drill and falling on the ball, and signal practice, followed by a line-up of two scrub elevens in the afternoon. The regular 'Varsity men, excepting Wheeler and Doucette, were not in the line...