Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yesterday's drill, the last secret practice of the year, Coach Fisher scheduled work identical with that of the previous days. A long signal drill, a dummy scrimmage with more than usual emphasis laid on the breaking up of drop kick formations, filled the afternoon. As before, the seconds opposed both Teams A and B with an array of Yale formations...
Ralph Horween Occ., the injured backfield man on Team A, who was hurt for the second time in the Princeton game, returned to an active participation in signal drill yesterday. Almost every day since that fierce battle he has spent the afternoon kicking goals from the field, and it is in that connection that he will probably enter the Yale game. Until a critical moment his brother, A. Horween '20, will take his berth at fullback. But when the team comes within scoring distance by a field goal, the older Horween's recent practice in that department may stand...
After this a strenuous combined signal drill and dummy scrimmage ensued, in which rather more tackling was allowed than in such practice before...
...final week's polishing-up before the Yale game began yesterday with every man on the squad except J. K. Desmond Occ. on the field. R. Horween Occ. was excused from signal drill and spent his time in booting the pigskin over the goal posts. On team A Morris Phinney Occ. had climbed up to his old position at right end, which he has not held since the first game of the season, forcing R. K. Kane '22 back to right tackle. The rest of the team consisted of Steele and Phinney, ends; Sedwick and Kane, tackles; Clark and Woods...
...Signal drill and a dummy scrimmage, practising defense against the Eli plays used by the second team completed the afternoon's workout...