Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Practice starts on Monday at the Stadium Field. For the first two day "Pooch" Donovan and Captain W. J. Murray will have charge of the squad, sending the men through a conditioning drill each day. On Wednesday a squad of coaches, headed by Coach Fisher, will take charge and schedule a plan of work which will take place mostly out of doors...
...backed them up in their supreme struggle on Saturday. Although Team A ran off the field shortly after the crowd arrived, the stands were treated to a short exhibition of Yale plays by two elevens picked from the second squad. Teams B and C also ran through a signal drill before the afternoon's practice broke...
...yesterday's drill, the last secret practice of the year, Coach Fisher scheduled work identical with that of the previous days. A long signal drill, a dummy scrimmage with more than usual emphasis laid on the breaking up of drop kick formations, filled the afternoon. As before, the seconds opposed both Teams A and B with an array of Yale formations...
Every first-squad man-ran through the drill; J. K. Desmond Occ, alone staying out of the dummy scrimmage...
After this a strenuous combined signal drill and dummy scrimmage ensued, in which rather more tackling was allowed than in such practice before...