The time keeper brought the game to a close.
"Gridley has handed us six to nothing," muttered Forsythe, as he led his disheartened fellows from the field.

"That puts us with the other second-rate teams in the state." "A great lot of orders you needed, didn't you ?" was Captain Dick Prescott's happy greeting as Dave met him beyond the side lines.
"You won that game for us, just the same," retorted Dave.
"I ?" demanded Dick, in genuine amazement.
"Yes; you, and no one else." "How ?" "You refused to give me a hint.

You threw me down hard, on my own resources.

I saw all those hundreds of people demanding that Gridley win," retorted Dave.

"What could I do?
I had to make the fellows do something like what they've been doing under Dick Prescott, or confess myself a dub.