Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale's famous end combination of Hickok and Barres. After observing this pair go down under punts and play a bang up game against both Dartmouth and Princeton, Grantland Rice called them the best set of ends in the whole country. They will have to travel at top speed today, however, to outshine a brilliant Crimson end squad...
Intensive defensive work has given the Harvard team confidence in its ability to halt the touted Eli power plays. The Crimson offense, too, has received its share of polishing up; tomorrow's game should find it clicking at top speed. Better timing and greater speed in the execution of running plays has been the aim of the Harvard mentors...
Yesterday's workout for the University football squad was in the nature of a thorough polishing up on all assignment work. For two hours the various coaches put their charges through a detailed drill with greater speed the ultimate goal...
While the linemen were engaged in a strenuous session of live tackling and on the dummies, Coaches Horween, Casey and Bradford worked with the backs and ends. Skeleton teams were organized and all the finer points of play were explained. Speed and accurate timing in the execution of offensive assignments, especially in lateral pass plays, was sought. The entire squad was then given a blackboard talk...
...schedule. Under the tutelage of Fordyce Blake, veteran Crusader scout, a class team ran through the formations of the Purple eleven, and then Teams A and B squared off against each other in a short dummy scrimmage. All the plays of the Crimson repertory were run through at top speed but there was no contact work...