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Shaughnessy's demonstration was only one of the features of the morning's workout that was held on Soldiers Field, however, for the A and B teams of the first squad ran through a long dummy scrimmage in which play after play was given a thorough tryout. The backs were also given opportunity to pick their own holes during the session which consisted in giving first one team and then the other the ball in a long march down the field. No downs or score were kept track...
...team (five out of the seven are civilians) which arrived last week in Antwerp, has registered in its tryout an average team score just two points below the Swiss record. The team...
...years they staged musical shows, plays and circuses for such organizations as the Elks, American Legion and Shriners, carried properties and costumes around the country in innumerable trunks. In 1924 they were made office managers of the company, took a Chicago apartment. For fun they obtained a radio tryout without pay. This led to regular engagements. First they sang songs, told stories; gradually they evolved their blackface manner. Gosden taught Correll the dialect; for a while they were known as Sam 'n' Henry. In March 1928, they first performed as Amos 'n' Andy...
...discretion of the coach. The Crimson mentor was quick to reply that he was in favor of the proposed system as an experiment, and that he thought that the plan should not be used only in the Yale series, but that Harvard's nine should have a thorough tryout under the plan before it meets the Blue. Mitchell's statement follows...
...first time a unified organization meets the combined football forces of the University. The Horween system, however experts and dopesters may define its defects or its assets will be afforded a complete tryout. The full potentiality of his coaching will be felt from the most insignificant freshman candidate to the star of the Crimson team, a training extending over a period of four years. What was felt to be the greatest asset to the great Notre Dame teams of several years ago, namely the long time period of training under Knute Rockne, will be in a sense realized at Harvard...