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"I don't know that I have a stomach," replied Greg promptly. "You'll play shortstop today, then." Half an hour later, the Lehigh fellows were out on the field, going through some practice plays. Below the center of the grandstand, the West Point band was playing its most spirited music. The seats reserved for officers and their families, and for invited guests, were filling up rapidly.
The first move had the promise of good. At the spot the Lehigh and the Monocany meet the Brethren had purchased a plot of ground ; they all lived together in one log-house; they proposed to build a settlement like Herrnhut; and there, one immortal Christmas Eve, Count Zinzendorf conducted a consecration service.
The supreme satisfaction I had in nailing both of those runners is one of the most pleasant recollections of my football career. "When I was a little shaver, back in 1889, I lived at South Bethlehem, Pa. Paul Dashiell and Mathew McClung, who were then playing football at Lehigh University, took an interest in me. Paul Dashiell took me to the first football game I ever saw.
For nearly a month she has been tramping the Lehigh Valley railroad tracks after dark, reaching the jail at midnight, and holding converse with her father on the stone sill of his cell window, two stories above the ground. The girl was closely questioned but refused to answer, probably fearing the consequences of visiting a prisoner without the consent of the sheriff.
Caldwell, do you drink?" Caldwell, wholly unsuspicious, answered: "Thank you, Mr. President, I am awfully tired and will take a little rye." Mr. E. B. Thomas, president of the Lehigh Valley, was a valuable member of the association. The Baltimore and Ohio, as usual, had its president, Mr. Charles F. Mayer, accompanied by an able staff.
Lieutenant Carney is so blue that I believe he'd like to compromise by giving Lehigh the game at a score of twelve to nothing! And the Navy! Think of the fun of having Annapolis strutting around with the Army scalp tied to an anchor!" "If you really mean what you've been saying," said Dick slowly, "then we're going tomorrow afternoon. I'm taking the liberty of speaking for Greg."
"Greg." whispered Dick, his pulses throbbing, "you see those fellows on the Lehigh right flank?" They're the fellows we've got to down. We've got to down them, if we get killed!" "That's the word!" gritted the Army left tackle. "Dick, I'd about as soon be killed as let the Army be walked over!" This had all been whispered rapidly.
"Railway guide, William," he ordered sharply. "Yep." "And call up the station agent. Have him wire for a lower berth on the Lehigh to-night." William Irons waited. "Go on, go on," called the politician, crossly, glancing up from his time-table. "Have you foundered halfway?" "Nope. You didn't say where to." "New York, New York." "Yep," said William, placidly. "What train?"
"I perfected a system of train telegraphy between stations and trains in motion whereby messages could be sent from the moving train to the central office; and this was the forerunner of wireless telegraphy. This system was used for a number of years on the Lehigh Valley Railroad on their construction trains.
But Dick was seen to come out of it, while Greg rolled on the grass with the fullback. "Touchdown!" The air trembled with the vibration of that surging yell as Cadet Prescott raced across Lehigh's goal line. "Humph!" ejaculated Haynes. But he, too, was on his feet, watching the lively performance. Then the pigskin was carried back for the kick for goal, and the goal was made. Lehigh was tied!
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