Word: signal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because of a remark the latter has passed about his (Crack's) mother. Best shot: Crack, at the battle front, making sissified King Leopold (Lowell Sherman) drop a handkerchief as a signal for shooting an officer...
...freedom necessary to the seeking of that Truth which in Latin is inscribed upon the Harvard seal. Perhaps it is the never failing presence in Harvard classes of a man or a few men who in college give promise and in later life make the promise good of signal distinction and usefulness in the world...
This afternoon Coach Horween's squad will run through a 15-minute signal drill and then repair to the Belmont Spring Country Club. After a period of complete rest, the Crimson players will return to Cambridge at 9.30 o'clock this evening. Spirit runs high in the Harvard camp as every player, with the exception of Potter who is suffering from an injured foot, is in excellent physical condition...
Only two more days of practice remain, and these sessions will undoubtedly be in the nature of signal drills, blackboard talks and developing a defense for Yale plays. No little time will be spent on ironing out the flaws in the lateral passing attack. To this end Coach Horween has enlisted the services of A. E. French '29, this year's Freshman coach and member of the famous Guarnaccia-French lateral passing combination. This means of attack has been none too reliable this season, but that the Yale game may find the Crimson employing it in some more highly-developed...
Because of the inadequacy of the cage the practice was extremely light. The nature of the workout was not revealed other than that the squad listened to a blackboard talk by Coach Horween and after individual instructions three teams ran through a 45-minute signal drill. Whether or not the squad received some more new plays was not divulged...