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...same sort of play with similar results continued throughout the scrimmage, Team A gaining consistently and stopping its opponents' attack with ease. Drop-kicks and forward passes were tried several times by the second team, but without success...
...with the tackling dummy while the backs and ends ran down under Mahan's punts. All the first squad linemen were then drilled under the supervision of Coach Gardiner and team B was put through signal practice. In this the backs fumbled continually and were unable to form any sort of interference...
...handle themselves on a slippery field. Work was confined to the most fundamental practice with the dummies, medicine ball, and bucking machine, except for the ends and backs, who were given a long drill in punting, catching, forming interference, and getting down the field under punts. This sort of training will be used again today, but on Monday, if the present prospects materialize, the squad will be divided and a short scrimmage will take place...
...stories always are, this one is a good example of the lack the average reader feels in them. One never feels he understands the people; one does not feel sure they understand each other. The author has so refined them that they are no longer the plain human sort one knows. Besides, they so seldom do anything worth while. They talk, not always brilliantly, and fade away somehow in whispers and twilight. They make one long for blood and lust even to melodrama...
There will be races in throwing beanbags, races with flags, races with medicine balls, races to set up candle pins, combination running and tossing races, potato races, in fact, every sort of race that is common in the grammar schools. In addition the girls of the high schools will hold an interclass meet in which there will be similar races and exhibitions of folk dancing. The class winning this meet will receive medals...