Word: signaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time too he sent first general alarm, as far as is known, a C Q radio signal to other ships meaning "everybody listen." An hour later he sent SOS giving his position. To New York office of Lamport & Holt Line he reported: "During the night developed 32-degree list. Starboard decks under water. Ship lying on beam-ends. Impossible to proceed anywhere. Sea moderately rough...
Under the rules existant at that time players and coaches were permitted to walk along the side lines. Haughton had given Kennard a warning signal and Kennard moved along the side lines, always keeping the Harvard center in a direct line between him- self and the center of the Yale goal...
When Ver Wiebe was withdrawn, Kennard walked on the field along that line and, when at the right distance made the signal to the Harvard center to snap the ball, the ball was passed and the goal kicked before the Yale players, and almost before the Harvard men grasped the true significance of the situation. Kennard's success crowned perhaps the most persistent training on one feature of the game ever gone through by an individual, for he had practiced drop-kicking for months until he had the trick worked into a fine...
...preliminary games for Harvard, and when it was time to open up Buell was sent in, but against Yale it was decided to reverse the tactics and start with the passing game, hoping to take Yale unawares. Fitzgerald even took the team on the field for signal work just before the game, but when the whistle blew, Buell was seen in the quarterback position...
...guards; B. H. Ticknor '31, center; E. T. Putnam '30, quarterback; A. E. French '29 and David Guarnaecia '29, halfbacks; and W. R. Harper '30, fullback was the eleven which ran through a light workout, kicking off and using some of its simpler plays and forward passes in signal drill. After ten minutes of this sort of exercise while the Crimson supporters cheered them on, the players trotted off the field leaving teams B and C and the seconds to hold the spotlight...