Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practice for the yearlings was in the main similar to that of the preceding days, the first part of the afternoon being devoted to preliminary work. All of the squad were put through a stiff drill in dummy tackling, kicking and punt catching. Late in the afternoon, however, the coaches divided up the squad into tentative elevens and put them through elementary signal practice. No attempt, however, was made to divide the squad according to the ability of the players...
...newly appointed cross-country coach, will take the Crimson harriers out to the Belmont course today at 2.45, while the 1924 runners will practice over the Cemetery Course under the leadership of Captain D. F. O'Connell '21 of the University track team. This will be the first stiff work-out of the season for both teams and will be the first real chance to get a line on the new material. A. J. Fox '22, who reported Wednesday, is expected to be a stellar performer this season...
Dummy tackling was inaugurated in Freshman football practice yesterday. The squad, still numbering close to 100 were put through a stiff drill in tacking as well as the more elementary work of passing and staring. During the first part of the afternoon the kickers received instruction in punting, while the backs practiced catching the ball. The wet field and slippery balls necessarily slowed up the work considerably. Coach J. F. Ryan '19 has not yet divided his squad up into elevens and no formal scrimmages have taken place...
...scarcity of stiff scrimmage sessions on account of the late start of practice and the recent heat and rain, the Princeton line-up is as yet quite uncertain. The Swarthmore game Saturday will be a real test of the squad's strength, to be measured not so much by the size of the score rolled up against the Pennsylvanians as in the first display of form exhibited by several of last year's squad upon whom Coach Roper has been heavily counting for the coming year...
...imperative. There must be no repectition of the sparsely attended Princeton game rally last fall, when Wally Trumbull expressed so cloquently his opinion on the undergraduate attitude. It will take a lot more spirit than has been shown in Cambridge since the war to drive the eleven through it stiff early season games to victory over Princeton and Yale, and to efface the sting of Jimmy Knox's "atrocious indifference...