CHAPTER VI.
THE PRACTICE GAME.
"First and second Eleven rushes and quarters down the field and practice formations.

Backs remain here to kick!" shouted Wesley Blair.
It was a dull and cold afternoon.

The last recitation was over and half the school stood shivering about the gridiron or played leapfrog to keep warm.

Stephen Remsen, in the grimiest of moleskins, stood talking to the captain, and, in obedience to the command of the latter, some fifteen youths, clad for the coming fray, were trotting down the field, while eight others, backs and substitute backs on the two teams, passed and dropped on the pigskin in an endeavor to keep warm.
The first and second elevens were to play their first real game of the season at four o'clock, and meanwhile the players were down for a stiff thirty minutes of practice.

Joel March shivered with the rest of the backs and waited for the coach and the captain to finish their consultation.