Word: signal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class football teams held light practice yesterday, but few men have as yet come out. Only fourteen men reported as candidates for the Senior team. The squad had signal work, followed by practice in running down on kicks. No regular coach has yet been appointed. The Junior squad of fourteen men was given a hard practice. After falling on the ball and tackling the dummy the team had signal practice and a short scrimmage. D. A. Newhall '06 acted as coach. A training table for the squad has been started. Very few men were out for the Sophomore team...
...light practice yesterday afternoon the University team went through signals and were coached in playing individual positions. W. H. Lewis '95 instructed the line-men; N. Cabot '97 and D. Cochrane '99, the ends; Coach Wrightington '97 and J. Dunlop '96, the backs; W. L. Garrison '97 and C. B. Marshall '04, the quarterbacks. Parker reported yesterday but did no work. The line-up in the signal practice was the same as that for the game this afternoon...
...long distances as they were unsteady on their feet. Cunniff played centre and Parkinson was for the first time given a trial at left tackle. Meier was back in the game again at right tackle, and in the scrimmage replaced Derby, who was in the line-up only during signal practice...
...Tuesday the Pennsylvania team had its last line-up before the game tomorrow, and since then the work has been very light. Yesterday the team ran through signal practice, paying particular attention to mass plays directed against the centre of the line. Owing to the impossibility of securing a suitable field it was found impracticable to make the practice secret...
...secret practice yesterday afternoon, under extremely adverse weather conditions, the team engaged in very little preliminary work, except that of running through signals to perfect plays for the game on Saturday. The scrimmage, however, lasted 40 minutes. Owing more to the weakness of the second eleven than to improvement in the University offense, the first team scored five touchdowns, four of them on long runs. Oveson played at right tackle on the first in the scrimmage and his work on the defense was good. Meier was in the signal practice line-up but did not go into the scrimmage. Blagden...