Word: seconde
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Football Strategy, headed by Coach Jones, has decided not to make any special preparations for the Brown game in spite of the fact that the Providence eleven is certain to give them a hard fight, but to devote their entire time and attention to improving the playing of their second and third string men who will undoubtedly be needed in either the Princeton or Harvard games, and to the reconditioning of Captain Callahan, Aldrich, Acosta, Murphy, and Dickens, all of whom have been out of the game for quite a while...
While the first string men were busy running through signals, team "B" staged a vigorous scrimmage against Dr. Bull's second eleven. In this game, team "B" demonstrated its general superiority by taking the ball down the field two times in succession to their opponents 10-yard line. However, the coaches decided not to let them score, and gave the ball to the second team in the middle of the field. Nevertheless, the scrubs were unable to gain through the line of their heavier opponents. Knapp at halfback and Sturm at fullback were the individual stars of team...
Corresponding to a similar movement by "Tad" Jones of Yale, Coach Fisher seems to be determined that during this week his second string men shall reach the acme of development. He also realizes only too well that some of his regulars are apt to be laid out in the Princeton game, and that he may have to play men on team "B" against Yale and in any case against Brown...
Following a long dummy scrimmage between team "A" and the second team, a short kicking duel between Owen, Fitts, Humphrey and Churchill, in which all of these men were encouragingly successful in getting off long punts, some of them well over fifty yards. This completed the day's workout for team "A" with the exception of Horween and Sedgwick, who played on team "B" during its scrimmage with the black-jerseyed eleven...
...hard fought and only by a clever forward pass from Johnson to Chapin which went for a thirty yard gain and the single touchdown of the game, were they able to score. For nearly fifteen minutes the play raged back and forth, for a while in favor of the second team, and then after losing the ball on downs, turning to the advantage of team "B". During the afternoon, Stillman showed his ability as a punter by gaining on every exchange of kicks. Although the varsity coaching staff seemed satisfied with the showing made by team "B", they will probably...