You've got to follow closely on that.

Try it again, please." So it went for nearly an hour, the substitutes gradually taking the places of the first-string players.

Steve, who had had the signals explained to him earlier, managed to get through without mistakes, but as an end he had little to do in the drill.

After the coach had watched them go through some fourteen plays, the settees were dragged out into the floor again, the players seated themselves and the coach drew diagrams and explained them and examined the squad in signals as he went along.

It was all over at a little after nine, but not for Steve.