Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking advantage of the coldest September weather in Cambridge history yesterday. Coach Arnold Horween '20 sent the University football. squad through the hardest grind to date. This morning the teams will be sent through a long, strenuous scrimmage period with a cut in the squad expected to follow...
Although short scrimmages with particular care being paid to individual assignments took place yesterday, the bulk of the work consisted of dummy tackling, blocking, and defensive interference. A long period of kicking, passing, and drill on signals also had its place...
...fact that C. F. Richards '31, Charles Devens '32, and W. B. Wood '32, are suffering from muscle bruises, there were only three teams in the scrimmages yesterday but all the linemen had a few minutes of play. In addition to Wood and Devens on the incapacitated list. F. J. Gilligan '32 and T. W. Gilligan '31, who are also backfield candidates, have been out of the game for several days but all these men are expected to return by Monday...
Coach Horween sent his football charges through a few minutes of light scrimmage in yesterday afternoon's practice session on Soldiers Field. The four teams which compose the first University squad lined up against each other and ran through about a half dozen plays with no casualties or bruises resulting...
...same four teams which lined up for signal drill on Tuesday worked together yesterday, and though no particular significance was placed on the combinations which have been improvised so far, it is nevertheless noteworthy that a large majority of last year's veterans have been placed together on the team which has been under the direction of E. T. Putnam '29, experienced pilot of last season. In the backfield are S. L. Batchelder '31, valuable auxiliary back of last year, A. W. Huguley '31, letterman and stellar defenseman, and W. R. Harper '30, two-time letterman and reckoned the best...