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Yesterday saw the second day of hard work for the University football team. In the morning the practice was confined to signal drill, but in the afternoon there was nearly an hour's stiff play with the second team. Coach Haughton dispensed with the usual blackboard talk and dummy practice in the afternoon and after a very short signal drill with the whole squad, the University substitutes lined up against the second team. They played for about 20 minutes, when the University team went in and scored three touch-downs and two goals from the field in a 30-minute...
...game and above all the tremendous possibility it offers for general participation. Any healthy man can play soccer. It makes no difference if he stand four feet six, or six feet four, whether he weighs 125 pounds or 225 pounds. There are no signals for him to buy, no blackboard talks from coaches, pope of the hundred and one phases of training that make American football a business father than a sport. He simply joins a team of men of his own skill, puts on a pair of ruining shorts and a jersey, trois over to the field and commences...
...game means business; spe- cial instruction for the individual players in blocking, charging, tackling, punting, blackboard talks from the coaches in the afternoons and evenings; complicated signal practice for the team with offensive and defensive formations, all for an hour or more before the game itself is played...
...game, play by play. The first will arrive about 2.15 o'clock, shortly after the game starts. As each report is received, it will be given out verbally and at the same time a diagram of the game as it progresses will be placed upon a large blackboard, erected for the purpose on a platform at one end of the room...
...Frothingham, P. Withington '09, R. W. P. Brown '98, and W. H. MacKinnon, of the Athletic Office, arrived from Boston, and after dinner Brown gave the team a blackboard talk. All the members of the squad except T. Frothingham, are in excellent condition. Frothingham will not start the game, but may be used for special plays. Tomorrow's work will consist of a long walk in the morning and light signal practice in the afternoon...