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Pass offense against the Eli 5-4-2 defense, which is Coach Howie Odell's stock in trade, and a long signal drill concluded opening day proceedings...
...your article "End of the Road" [TIME, Oct. 21] your reference to General Stilwell "setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute" seems quite strange to one subject to Army drill regulations. According to Field Manual 22-5 (Feb. 1946), quick time-the normal cadence of a group marching-is 120 steps per minute. This is surely not a brisk gait. Did TIME make a mistake as to "105 steps to the minute...
Coach Dick Harlow had a scrimmage scheduled for the "A" team yesterday, but he saw fit to use only three of his first-stringers in the contact drill against the Junior Varsity. Only Vince Moravee, Ned Dewey and John Florentine of the first eleven took part in the action, while the other probable starting team ran through a signal drill...
Prior to the scrimmage, the Varsity worked on pass offense and defense and defenses against the Brown attack. Jack Fisher was an outstanding operative in the pass defense drill, and Tom Felt had a good day on the receiving end of Chip Gannon's passes...
Prior to the signal drill, the Varsity worked on pass offense, defenses against the Dartmouth attack, and punting under pressure...