Word: signaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tackling the dummy was first in order. The linesmen were then given intensive instruction in line charging and in breaking through while backs and ends were divided into squads for a long practice in punting, going down under kicks and taking out ends. This was followed by stiff signal practice in which the various forward pass formation the yearlings will use were especially emphasized...
After the blackboard talk Coach Fisher sent his entire squad into the University baseball cage where dummy scrimmages and signal practice were held. The men who played Saturday, though dressed for practice, did not take part in this work. A let-up of a few minutes in the rain enabled Teams B and C to go into the Stadium for a brief signal drill...
Coach Fisher put the University players through their final paces in a light work-out yesterday afternoon in the Stadium. The practice was short and consisted for the most part of signal work, dummy scrimmages, and kicking. Team A lined up the same as it will start today's fray...
...backfield men repeated Thursday's tactics of lining up and going through signal drill yesterday. Coach Murray of the quarterback squad is fast weeding out the weaker men under his charge and expects, by the middle of next week, to devote the greater part of his time to the half dozen candidates who have shown the best qualifications for the position...
Coach Campbell gave the Freshman football candidates more advanced work yesterday than has been the case in the three previous practices. He assigned to his backfield men an entire half of the field, lined them up in groups of four, and put them through a stiff signal drill, paying especial attention to the quarterbacks. He will repeat the same tactics today and may coach his linesman in the signal work also...