Of course, the team will not play as a team, but the members of it will play singly or in couples against representatives of other schools.

And when that happens it is sure to follow that the players will go into almost as strict training as the football men do now." "Well, that sounds funny," exclaimed West.
"Digbee thinks one of the most objectionable features of football is the fact that the players go into it so thoroughly--that they train for it, and study it, and spend a good deal of valuable time thinking about it.
But to me that is one of its most admirable features.

When a boy or a man goes in for athletics, whether football or rowing or hockey, he desires, if he is a real flesh-and-blood being, to excel in it.

To do that it is necessary that he put himself in the condition that will allow of his doing his very best.

And to that end he trains.