Of course he was wrong, since intercollegiate football, whether played by schoolboys or college students, is still intercollegiate football.

The difference lies only in the state of development.

At Hillton the game, very properly, was restricted to its more primary methods; at Harwell it is developed to its uttermost limits.

It is the difference between whist over the library table and whist at the whist club.
But all things come to an end, and at length the coach rather ungraciously declared he could stand no more and bade them join the rest of the candidates for the run.

That run was two miles, and Joel finally stumbled into the gymnasium tuckered out and in no very good temper just as the five o'clock whistle on the great printing house sounded.
After dinner in the dining hall that evening Joel confided his doubts and vexations to Outfield as they walked back to their room.