He extended his hand and while this form of welcome was being gone through with Ned, Bob and Jerry introduced themselves.
“Oh, I know your names all right,” declared Ted. “We’ve heard about you.”
“Nothing out of the way, I hope?” came from Bob.
“No,” was the rather hesitating answer. “You’ve been pretty well discussed by a certain crowd on account of some of the things the professor said you fellows had done. Did you really do all that?”
“We’d have to know what Professor Snodgrass said about us,” remarked Jerry.
“I’ll tell you some time. But this is what I want to know. I’m captain of the eleven, and I want to know if you play football?”
“We haven’t in some time,” admitted Ned.
Ted Newton shook his head.
“Then there’s no use putting you in at this stage,” he said. “I’m sorry, too, for you look husky. I need some experienced players. I’ve got enough candidates in the beginner’s class. Well, it can’t be helped. You know here we let freshmen play on the varsity.”
“So we’ve heard,” replied Jerry.