Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Windt, and Gray spent last night at the Norfolk Hunt Club in Medfield. The majority of the squad left Harvard square yesterday afternoon at 1.45 o'clock. Coaches Haughton and Daly and the following nine men followed on a later train, after a short signal practice and a drill in punting to the back-field in the Stadium: H. F. Corbett '11, T. Frothingham '12, H. C. Leslie '11, R. G. McKay '11, W. M. Minot '11, D. V. O'Flaherty '10, J. G. B. Perkins '11, H. B. Sprague '11, and R. B. Wigglesworth...
...order of graduation, each with a banner. Upon their arrival on the field they cheered Coach Haughton and the undergraduates. The latter responded with enthusiastic cheers for the graduates, Coach Haughton, Captain Fish and the members of the team. The University team held a snappy five-minute signal drill and then retired to the Locker Building after cheering both the graduates and undergraduates...
...open football practice held in the Stadium yesterday afternoon the University and substitute teams were given nothing but light signal drill. Captain Fish was not on the field and his place in the line was taken at first by Bush and later by L. Withington, the latter being replaced at left guard by Perkins. For an hour previous to the opening of the gates for the graduate and undergraduate parade, the University team was drilled in signals, and a "dummy" scrimmage against the second team was held. The teams lined up as follows: UNIVERSITY TEAM. SECOND TEAM. Houston...
...scrimmage, in which Yale plays were used by the second eleven. Captain Fish and Hooper did not get into the signal work, for it was thought best to give both of them another day's rest. The usual preliminary work in catching and kicking punts was followed by signal drill, the regulars and substitutes forming separate teams. In the "dummy" work, the first team was kept almost entirely on the defence. The showing of the team was fast, the players following the man with the ball and sizing up the various plays exceptionally well...
...Haven, Conn., November 16, 1909. There was a short scrimmage of the Yale squad this afternoon in which the first team scored twice against the second. Thee signal drill itself was secret, and afterwards there was practice in catching punts. With the exception of Vaughan, Daly, and Haines everyone reported for practice...