Bart nodded.
“I guess you’re right about that, though I never thought of it that way before. But Badger will be all right in a week.”
“Perhaps. He hobbled out to the fence to-night with a cane. Pelling is flat on his back, and Quimby is not much better.”
“But I believe there are other men just as good. Look how we slashed through ’em to-day.”
“Twenty-one men were used, and five out of the twenty-one were injured, more or less. How long will it take at this rate to use up every football-player in college?”
“Well, they can be used pretty fast.”
“I should say so. While men are injured they cannot be progressing in practise.”
“But men get injured just the same everywhere. A fellow who is afraid of being hurt a little has no business playing the game.”
“That’s true enough. What worries me is that we are not getting a team together and holding it.”
“Well, how about Harvard? She shifts her men around.”