“But not for the purpose of trying a lot of new men.”
“Then what for?”
“To save her old ones. She has very little important new timber on her eleven this season, but she has all her best men from last year. She is taking care of them, too. While Yale is shifting about and wavering with uncertainty, Harvard is pushing straight forward with a fixed purpose—and that purpose is to drag Old Eli in the dust again this year.”
“She can’t do it!”
“I hope not.”
“Look at what we did to-day.”
“And look at what Harvard did to-day. She was up against a stronger team than the one we played, and she piled up a bigger score, without once having her goal-line in danger.”
“That’s the report, but the papers to-morrow may prove that she didn’t make such a wonderful showing.”
“We get things pretty straight by wire now. I think we’ll find the report is true enough.”
“Are you afraid, Merriwell?”