Word: workout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 40 men answered the call of E.L. Casey '19, head coach, in the first day of spring practice yesterday. Only five first squad men reported however, as most of the letter men are engaged in other spring sports. The workout yesterday took place in the Freshman field, and consisted of the usual drill of fundamentals and work on dummies...
Special drill was given on passing and line work yesterday, and the squad was given a workout on exercises, which finished off the first day's practice. The first squad men that reported were C.C. Cunningham '32, R.M. Faxon '32, F.H. Kales '32, J.F. Shereschewsky '32, and W.B. Trafford...
...have been receiving batting and fielding practice daily in the Briggs Cage with each infield getting a separate workout. Outfielders have been warming up on grounders, thereby getting valuable fielding experience. Coach Mitchell hopes to have the squad practicing on the University diamond in Soldiers Field within ten days. Work will begin in earnest next week when the team starts to play six-inning practice contests in the cage...
...Vagabond got in German A wasn't quite so thorough as he had thought it, but surely French, the common property of polite peoples of all nations, was not beyond his ken. He fairly exuded French colloquialisms when he went to see "La Grande Mare". In this linguistic workout he had a lead on his immediate neighbors at the theatre, a portly matron from Melrose (she came to be enraptured of M. Chevalier) and the student from Boston Latin (he, to see la belle Mlle. Colbert), since he had seen the English version first. And thank the good Lord...
...have been receiving only batting and fielding practice in the cage, with each infield getting a separate workout. The veteran outfielders are for the time getting warmed up in the infield. The coach has been showing his candidates the finer points of throwing the ball and tagging a runner...