Even Brayton began to question his judgment having taken these two men so recently on the team.
"If I had been able to train them from the first, they'd have been all right," muttered the captain of the Army Eleven.
To ease up on Prescott and Holmes, Brayton directed, as often as possible, charges through the center, or right-end rushes. But almost half of the time Lehigh seemed bent on bearing down the Army's left end. The hard work was beginning to tell on both Dick and Greg.
Yet it was a long tine, after all, before Lehigh managed to score a touchdown. When the time came, however, the visitors also made their kick for goal, and the score was Lehigh, 6; Army, 0. "Humph!" remarked Cadet Haynes, for the dozenth time. All his fellow subs. had moved away from him. They were disappointed, but they realized that Prescott and Holmes had entered the game under brilliant promise, yet without training.
Dutifully the cadet cheer-master kept at his work, but now the responses came with less volume from the corps of cadets, who were truly sitting on anxious seats.
In the interval of rest, Lieutenant Carney talked anxiously with
Brayton.
"Have we made a mistake in Prescott and Holmes?" asked the coach.
"What do you think, sir!" asked Brayton.
"If we had had that pair in training from the outset," replied the Army officer, "I'm satisfied that they would have made a better showing. Lehigh isn't a particularly strong team, but they have one of the best right-end assaults that I've seen in some time. It's really too bad that Prescott and Holmes, in their first game, are put against such a strong, clever assault."
"Well, we can't put Haynes in now, unless Prescott should be injured," replied Brayton.