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Yesterday's football workout for the University squad was held for the first time this year in the LeBaron Briggs Cage, due to continuous rains all afternoon. Practice lasted only an hour and consisted almost entirely of work on fundamentals, signal drills, and Virgina plays...
Giving special attention to the development of the B and C teams, Coach Casey put the University football squad through the first strenuous workout of the week yesterday. The major emphasis of the afternoon's practice was placed on fundamentals since these were some-what ragged in the final quarter of last Saturday's game. Tackling in particular was stressed, for the deficiency was most evident in that department...
Despite their poor record this year, the Longhorns in their short workout yesterday looked big, smooth-working, and potentially powerful. Containing practically all the members of last year's superb team, the present Texan eleven has dismally failed to equal its predecessor. Following an easy victory over Missouri, the Longhorns were upset in their next game with Rice, and recovered in time for a bare win over Oklahoma last week...
...three-quarters of an hour Team A was raced through a dummy scrimmage, after which Teams B and C were brought in to make up a defense for the first string. The entire squad was put through a serious workout on the dummies, while the backs were taken aside and specially groomed in blocking and tackling work...
Team A yesterday received its first contact work as a unit since the West Point game. Faxon took Hardy's place in the scrimmage against the scrubs although Hardy ran through signal drills. It was purely an offensive workout for the University team, with most of the plays being started off from the 50-yard line. Crickard showed up particularly well...