This isn't a funeral!" "Don't stoop for the ball; fall on it! The ground will catch you!" "Jones, what _are_ you doing?
Wake up." "No, _no_, NO! Great Scott, the ball won't _bite_ you!" The period was that exasperating one known as "the first two weeks," when coaches are continually upon the border of insanity and players wonder dumbly if the game is worth the candle.

To-day Joel, one of a squad of unfortunates, was relearning the art of tackling.

It was Joel's first experience with that marvelous contrivance, "the dummy." One after another the squad was sent at a sharp spurt to grapple the inanimate canvas-covered bag hanging inoffensively there, like a body from a gallows, between the uprights.
There are supposed to be two ways to tackle, but the coach who was conducting the operations to-day undoubtedly believed in the existence of at least thrice that number; for each candidate for Varsity honors tackled the dummy in a totally different style.

The lift tackle is performed by seizing the opponent around the legs below the hips, bringing his knees together so that further locomotion is an impossibility to him, and lifting him upward off the ground and depositing him as far backward toward his own goal as circumstances and ability will permit.

The lift tackle is the easiest to make.