Two match games a week was now the rule for the Varsity, and Joel each Wednesday and Saturday might have been found seated under the fence dividing the gridiron from the grand stand wrapped nearly from sight, if the afternoon was chilly, in a great gray blanket, and watching the play with all the excited ardor of the veriest schoolboy on the stand behind.
One Saturday Prince, the Varsity left-half, twisted his ankle, and Joel was taken on in his place.

They were playing Amherst, and Joel has ever since held that college in high esteem, for that it was against its Eleven he made his _debut_ into Harwell football life.

And how he played! The captain smiled as he watched him prance down the field after a punt, never content to be there in time, but always striving to get there first, and not seldom succeeding.

Once he succeeded too well.
It was in the second half.

Blair--it was his first year on the team--was playing full-back.