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Spring practice will begin two or three days after the preliminary meeting, and will last about three weeks. This will be the first spring football work-out since 1916. In 1917, arrangements were made for practice, but were cancelled on the declaration...
...thirty members of the University squad were given a hard work-out yesterday afternoon, under the direction of Coach R. E. Gross '19. After some preliminary, unorganized practice, combinations were tried in a long scrimmage against a team chosen from the rest of the University and Freshman candidates. H. P. King, '21, a member of last year's Freshman team, now at Camp Devens, took part in the scrimmage. However, he does not expect to get his discharge from the army in time to play hockey this year...
After the scrimmage, Gross put the regular 1921 lineup through a final work-out, emphasizing team-play. Inasmuch as this is to be the first occasion the squad has played in formal competition, team-work will be an important factor...
...strenuous afternoon yesterday, when special attention was paid to speed. The work began with five moderately fast laps, and one lap at almost full speed around the Stadium track. A two-mile walk and some sprints followed, and after two more laps around the Stadium track the afternoon's work-out ended...
With a 40 minute scrimmage the informal University team and the Freshman team lined up against each other yesterday for the first time. For the 1921 squad it was the first real football in their history, but the informal University had had the benefit of a work-out Wednesday. For the opening twenty minutes football was played as in a regular game; the latter half was spent in close instruction by the coaches...