The football practice yesterday afternoon was entirely secret, as it will be during the rest of the week in order to get the University eleven into the best possible shape for the game with Carlisle on Saturday. As the scrimmage on Tuesday was very satisfactory, the men were not required to go through another hard period of play yesterday, the time being devoted instead to signal practice. While the second eleven was running through signals and doing some work on the forward pass, Inches, Peirce, and Robinson, under the direction of Coach Cutts, practiced charging and catching the ball on the run. The ends were given a chance to run down under punts in order to develop their speed, Coach Reid doing the kicking. The West Point game and the Brown game both showed that the University team needed faster men on the ends in order to take advantage of Burr's long punts.
Parker played centre on the University eleven yesterday for the first time since the injury to his shoulder over a week ago. Foster, who has completely recovered from his slightly sprained ankle was also in the line-up at left half-back, and Lincoln will be in condition to play very soon. Burr, Kennard, Newhall and Osborne were not on the field yesterday, being given a day's rest. Orr, who recently injured his foot, will not be back in the game for a week or more.
The signal practice of the University eleven, against the second team, lasting over half an hour, was the most important feature of yesterday's work. All sorts of plays were tried, including the forward pass and straight line bucks. On the whole the work was excellent, for the men showed a great deal of life in their actions and generally knew what was required of them. Hall ran the eleven well, and Starr showed very good form at end, seldom missing the ball on passes.
The line-up for signal practice follows:
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