Word: squad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...French officers have secured two Lewis automatic machine rifles with the necessary equipment for the two supply men, so that one squad of automatic riflemen can be completely, fitted out. Wooden attachments similar to those placed in the rifle muzzles to hold the V. B. rifle grenades have also been obtained. It will now be possible to equip a whole platoon in the formation taught by the officers of the French Mission. The grenades used at Barre last summer, and the ordinary rifles will complete the armament...
...Henry Leary '05, field coach of the 1916 University football team was at the field yesterday to help drill the Freshman squad. During the rest of the season he will be out with the team several days a week in order to whip the team into shape for its later games. After directing a long drill in drop kicking and in running through plays, Coach Leary expressed his views on the football situation as follows...
...Freshmen have a light team; but it is well grounded and shows the results of Head Coach Wallace's long drills on fundamentals. A great deal of work, however, is ahead of the squad before the games with Princeton and Yale in November. Beside the present offensive which the team has been taught, a new and more varied attack must be mastered before 1921 has a finished team. So much work must be done with the Freshmen that it is doubtful whether I will be able to spend much time with the informal squad. As yet I have not watched...
Today the Boston College squad will play a practice game with the Freshmen eleven at 3 o'clock...
...Boston squad is coached by C. E. Brickley '15, former captain of the University eleven, and so has been taught characteristic University plays. It will probably be their second team which will play against the Freshmen. As the Freshmen have as yet no game scheduled for Saturday, today's contest will be the last outside competition which the team will have before the Worcester Academy game October...