Word: signaled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their last home practice yesterday afternoon, the Varsity avoided contact work and devoted the three-hour session to a passing drill with Jim Kenary doing most of the throwing and to covering under punts and kick-offs. They polished it off with a signal-drill under the lights...
...once too often. Two years ago the fire department allied with the municipal police fought a pitched battle with the Virginia boys and the state troopers. Routed at the end, the firefighters lost their clothing and trucks to a rioting band of fraternity men after responding to a false signal. Hook and ladder in nearby Crozet, more intrepid than the Charlottesville smoke eaters, can still be summoned in an emergency...
Chip Gannon, still weak from the injury that sidelined him for a quarter jury that sidelined him for a quarter of last weekend's game, ran well in a signal drill but was excused before the end of the afternoon. Gibby Warren took over his wingback slot, with Herb O'Connell moving up to fill in for Warren in the B backfield combination...
During practice, the A team ran through light workouts and signal drills, and defended against Virginia plays as portrayed by the C team. The B team scrimmaged Chief Boston's Jayvees. When darkness made even the white balls invisible, the squad moved under the Stadium lights for the second time this fall...
...press photographers were flashing pictures of the Varsity line and reporters were chatting with Dick Harlow last week, but in the next practice lot, out of reach of the flashbulbs, the Harvard team of two and three years hence was running through plays, signal drills and light contact work. Freshman Coach Henry Lamar was busily molding a Class of '51 squad out of the hundred-odd prep-school stars who showed up two weeks ago for their first taste of college football...