Steve wondered how they could take such a serious business so light-heartedly.

Then Joe Lawrence, the manager, a football under his arm, came in with Williams and, glancing at his watch, began calling the roll.

In the middle of it Coach Robey and Andy Miller and Danny Moore arrived.

More lights were turned on and Mr.Robey swung the blackboard on the platform nearer the front.
"We'll try Number Six," he announced.

Very quickly and surely he scrawled the formation on the board, added curving lines and dotted lines, dropped the chalk and faced the room.