Word: signal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Light practice featured the workout of the Crimson yesterday afternoon, Coach Wachter attempting nothing more strenuous than a signal drill and formation practice. Gordon and Fitts who were unable to be present Thursday due to mid-year examinations were again in uniform and went through the last work-out with the team...
...Tuesday evening, Coach Wachter gave all the first string men who played against both West Point and the Engineers and entire lay-off on Wednesday while Pallo and Captain McLeish also had yesterday free. Even for the rest of the squad yesterday's session consisted of a short signal drill with only ten minutes of scrimmage...
...with Clark University Tuesday and the practice brush with Coach Tolbert's Freshmen the following day, Coach Wachter let up on the quintet yesterday afternoon in the last practice before the West Point game and sent his men through merely a light shooting practice and a brief half-hour signal drill. This course was due to the fact that these two gruelling sessions following so closely upon each other had tired the men to some extent and Coach Wachter, by letting up on heavy work yesterday and today hopes to have the Crimson in top form for the contest...
...players has a sore right wing, but all others are ready to blow their hardest. This is their letter game." Later in his account, Mr. Ed Cunningham, the humorist of the Boston Herald sporting department, adds "The band marches up along the Harvard side and then at a given signal maneuvers into a gigantic "H". It is a new formation and was worked out in secret practice. Completely dazes Yale band, which stays in its seats...
During the last week light practices have been in order at the Stadium. Long dummy scrimmages with Coach Knox's men have been a daily feature of the workouts, with usually a rather long signal drill to wind up the afternoon