"I'm going to try you at fullback."
"At fullback?"
"Get into it and see if you can make good."
"Yes, sir."
He went without spirit, sure of the impossibility of the thing, feeling only the humiliation and failure that all at once flung itself like a storm-cloud across his ambition. A coach took charge of him, running over with him the elementary principles of blocking and plunging.
When he lined up, it was with half of the coaching force at his back.
"Come on, Stover; get into it!"
"Wake up!"
"Get your head down!"
"Keep a-going!"