Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Stadium the practice was entirely secret, the greater part of the time being spent in signal drill. Several new formations that have not as yet been tried in any game called forth special atention from Coaches Haughton, Daly and Campbell, and worked well with no opposition. Cutler drove the team well and met with a good response from the players...
...preliminary practice consisted of tackling drill, starting and breaking through work for the line men. Kennard did some punting. Burr was not in the play yesterday on account of a bad cold. In the second scrimmage between the substitutes and the second team, the former scored and held the second team well. Galatti got off some good forward passes to Harding, and Long, Minot and Pope did good work for the second team. Smith and Forchheimer were both injured in the scrimmage...
...characterized by excellence both at the bat and in the field. The fielding practice was held first, consisting in the usual hitting of grounders and flies. Simons made some pretty stops, and all the other men came up to the mark. After Hartford had been given a long drill in fielding grounders, and throwing the ball to first, batting practice occupied the rest of the time. Almost everybody hit the ball hard, and several long liners were made off Slater and Bankin. The bunting was good on the whole, but might have been improved...
With only eight days of actual practice on the Charles left before the Annapolis race, the University eight was put through a short but hard drill yesterday afternoon. The river was very rough, and the wind dead ahead upstream, but Coach Wray demanded a high stroke. On the first sprint the stroke was rapidly put up to 33 to the minute, and in the stretch extending from below the Stillman Infirmary to the boathouse it was raised to 36. The crew showed even better form with a high stroke than with a low, although it tended naturally to clip...
...Reverend H. B. Frissell, S.T.D. '00, principal, and Captain Allen Washington, drill-master, of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of Virginia, will talk on the work of the school and will describe how it is helping in the solution of the race problems of the South, in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Only members of the Union will be admitted...