He knew well enough where the trouble lay; he simply didn't give enough time to study.

But, somehow, what with the all-absorbing subject of making the varsity and the hundred and one things that took up his time, the hours remaining for "grinding" were all too few.

He wondered how Neil, who seemed quite as busy as himself, managed to give so much time to books.
In one of his weekly evening talks to the football men Mills had strongly counseled attention to study.

There was no excuse, he had asserted, for any of the candidates shirking lessons.
"On the contrary, the fact that you are in training, that you are living with proper regard for sleep, good food, fresh air, and plenty of hard physical work, should and does make you able to study better.

In my experience, I am glad to say, I have known not one football captain who did not stand among the first few in his class; and that same experience has proved to me that, almost without exception, students who go in for athletics are the best scholars.