Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yesterday afternoon, devoting considerable time to scrimmage. The linemen of team A started work with the tackling dummy while the backs and ends ran down under Mahan's punts. All the first squad linemen were then drilled under the supervision of Coach Gardiner and team B was put through signal practice. In this the backs fumbled continually and were unable to form any sort of interference...
After the usual passing, blocking and charging practice teams A and B ran through fast signal drill; Mahan, McKinlock, and Miller in the backfield for team A played well together. Special attention was given to the development of the forward pass...
During the first team signal practice two line-ups were chosen from squad B and a short scrimmage was held. Kenny secured the ball on the kick-off and ran it back twenty yards. The ball was soon advanced to the 30-yard line, where Bigelow broke away for a pretty run through the entire second team for a touchdown, the only score of the afternoon. On the whole the second squad scrimmage was very poor, marred by continual fumbles and careless playing...
...last year's Captain Fisher, practicing recovering the ball and charging. Coach Leary had charge of the ends going down under punts, and Coach Daly instructed the backs in catching them and forming interference. When this work had been finished, there was a quarter of an hour's signal drill, after which the second team came on the field ready for a scrimmage...
...yesterday afternoon. The squad of over sixty men was divided into squads of first and second team material. About 25 men, who are, of course, simply the earliest choice of the coaches, were picked for a first squad and divided into three teams which were given the first real signal drill of the year. In this squad were the following men: backs, Captain Wendell, Bradlee, Bradley, Brickley, Freedley, H. Frothingham, Gardner, Gibson, Graustein, H. Hardwick, T. Hardwick, Logan, Spang, and Willetts. And of these men, the ones who were placed on what seemed to be the team of first choices...