If I can't shake it off no doubt I had better be retired from the Navy eleven." "Don't you believe it!" almost shouted coach.

"Mr.Darrin, you will simply have to brace! Give us all the best that's in you, and don't for one instant allow any personal disappointments to unfit you.

You'll do that, won't you ?" "Yes, sir." Darrin certainly tried hard enough.

Yet just as certainly the Navy's boosters shook their heads when they watched Darrin's work on the field.
"He has gone stale," they said.

"The very worst thing that could happen to the Navy this year!" Then came the first game of the season---with Lehigh.