Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ralph Horween Occ., the injured backfield man on Team A, who was hurt for the second time in the Princeton game, returned to an active participation in signal drill yesterday. Almost every day since that fierce battle he has spent the afternoon kicking goals from the field, and it is in that connection that he will probably enter the Yale game. Until a critical moment his brother, A. Horween '20, will take his berth at fullback. But when the team comes within scoring distance by a field goal, the older Horween's recent practice in that department may stand...
...final week's polishing-up before the Yale game began yesterday with every man on the squad except J. K. Desmond Occ. on the field. R. Horween Occ. was excused from signal drill and spent his time in booting the pigskin over the goal posts. On team A Morris Phinney Occ. had climbed up to his old position at right end, which he has not held since the first game of the season, forcing R. K. Kane '22 back to right tackle. The rest of the team consisted of Steele and Phinney, ends; Sedwick and Kane, tackles; Clark and Woods...
...Signal drill and a dummy scrimmage, practising defense against the Eli plays used by the second team completed the afternoon's workout...
Rain, for the second time this week, kept practice for the University eleven comparatively light yesterday. Although Coach Fisher has no intention of submitting his first-string men to the possibility of injury before the annual classic with Yale, yet the drill so far has consisted of little more than signal practice...
Simultaneously with the renovation of Pierce Hall, was the process of transforming the big wooden drill hall, bought from the Navy last June, into a mechanical engineering laboratory. The building has been re-lined for greater warmth and automatic sprinklers, foundations for heavy machinery and a complete drainage system installed. The building has been completely re-wired. Much of the apparatus, including a liquid air machine, steam and gas engines and steel testing machinery, has already been set up so that the building is now in active...