Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Next the team retired to the Cage, where the backs threw the ball around, while the two lines opposed each other in "breaking through" practice. Then the whole squad ran onto the field and was given a long signal drill...
That's the fullback's signal to buck the line...
...football interest, for a number of colleges in this period sent their first teams afield. Among these early aristocrats of the sport are Brown, Dartmouth, Lawrenceville, Lafayette, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams. An important feature of the sport which made its advent in the early '80's was signals. Originally these were words and sentences, later single numbers, and finally the complex signal systems that have prevailed for 30 years. A strange occurrence in this time was that Harvard's Faculty unexpectedly abolished football in 1885, and in 1886, as unexpectedly, restored...
...became interested in the work. At the suggestion of Mr. Irwin I devised a set of signals, made up from a combination of Army wig-wag and Stock Exchange signals, by which I can signal in an instant to the score-board the "downs," "yard line," "yards to go," "who's ball," "play by," "man hurt," "goal," "touchdown"--in short everything that is necessary to the complete understanding of the game. Since then I have constantly improved the system so that today it is accepted as a standard all over the country...
...University 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...