text: "Still the care of the chalice has remained the deacon's special province down to modern times. Even now in a high Mass the rubrics direct that when the chalice is offered, the deacon is to support the foot of the chalice or the arm of the priest and to repeat with him the words: Offerimus tibi, Domine, calicem salutaris, etc. As a careful study of the first "Ordo Romanus" shows, the archdeacon of the papal Mass seems in a sense to preside over the chalice, and it is he and his fellow-deacons who, after the people have communicated under the form of bread, present to them the calicem ministerialem with the Precious Blood." (From the Catholic Encyclopedia. 1917.)
  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04647c.htm
  This was the practice during Solemn, Tridentine Masses and still is. There are plenty of recordings of Tridentine Masses on YouTube.