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The two elevens were trotting out on the field once more, and Joel stood up in the hope that Blair might see him and decide to take him on. But Joel was doomed to disappointment, for the second half of the game began with practically the same line-up. The score stood six to nothing in favor of Hillton.
"Don't fuddle the signals smash through follow the interference, and keep your eyes on the ball. Blake, give him the signals." The scrub quarter took him to one side and imparted a simple code used at practice. "Now, scrub, take the ball," snapped the coach, "and see what you can do." There was a quick line-up. Andy was trembling, but he managed to hold himself down. He looked over at the varsity.
"But, Jack," Bob went on to say, earnestly, "right now I want you to understand that I mean to profit by this thing." "Yes, I remember you vowed you would, Bob," remarked the pleased captain of the Chester eleven, once more easy in his mind, and no longer seeing that horrible gaping weak spot in the line-up. "This is going to be a lesson to me," continued Bob, soberly.
He saw that they were fairly fuming with eagerness for the fray, and after making some minor changes in the line-up Ellis having sprained his ankle and Caldwell broken a finger he sent them out with the single exhortation to "hammer the heart out of them." It wasn't as classic as Wellington's "Up, Guards, and at them," but quite as effective.
"If you're in such a blue funk over the Navy's chances, you'd better keep off the line-up," muttered Midshipman Dalzell. "Oh, I'm in no funk," returned Darrin, smiling. "However, I'm not going to be betrayed into any bragging until we've wiped the field up with the Army if we can." Rap-tap! came on the door. "I'll wager that's Farley," whispered Darrin. "Come in," called Dave.
Between the goal posts it went, dropping back of the line. Gloom had fallen over the middies, who realized that but three minutes time was left. Swiftly as could be, the line-up was made for the kick-off. It was the Army's turn to start the ball, the Navy's to come back with it, if possible, into Army territory. The Navy soon succeeded in getting the pigskin a trifle over the middle line.
"It is intended to give the idea of a kick, or, failing that, of a run around left end. It will very probably be used as a separate play in the last few minutes of a half, especially where the line-up is near the side line, right being the short side of the field. You will be given the signal calling this as a separate play to-morrow evening.
Suits Cleaned and Pressed in One Hour." And then she went out into 7 A.M. Broadway, all swept clean and caroling with the song of the car gong and the whistlings of steamboats. A line-up of theaters, early-morning mausoleums of last night's madnesses, first met her eye in the clean light. One of them was violently postered with lithographs of Minnie Maddern Fiske. A three-sheet proclaimed Melba.
Travennes looked down the street again, saw number five added to the line-up, and coughed up chunks of broken profanity, grieving his host by his lack of courtesy. "Time," announced Mr. Cassidy, interrupting the round. "I wants them cayuses an' I wants 'em right now. Yu an' me will amble off an' get 'em. I won't bore yu with tellin' yu what'll happen if yu gets skittish.
There were several weak places in the Scranton High line-up. Many who diagnosed the play were of the opinion that the game was already as good as lost. Then came a most violent scrimmage, into which "Just" Smith plunged with the utmost recklessness, as though determined to wipe out all his former mistakes in some brilliant playing. Suddenly the referee's whistle called the game.
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