"Yes," begged Bayliss.
"Never kick a sore toe against a stone wall," quoth Dick Prescott, and passed on into the school building.
CHAPTER X
TWO GIRLS TURN THE LAUGH
By this time training was going on briskly. Four days out of every week the squad had to practice for two hours at the athletic field.
There were tours of work in the gym., too.
Besides, it was "early to bed and early to rise" for all members of the squad.
Even those who hoped only to "make second" were under strict orders to let nothing interfere with their condition.
Three mornings in the week Coach Morton met all squad men for either cross-country work or special work in sprinting. And this was before breakfast, when each man was on honor pledged to take only a pint of hot water—-nothing more—-before reporting. On the other mornings, football aspirants were pledged to run without the coach.
Yet, with all this, studies had to be kept up to a high average, for no man on the "unset" list could hope to be permitted to play football.