“Wish we had him,” muttered Dan.
“Um; if we had we’d have to make our team over. Of course Nordham had this advantage over us yesterday; they could play to their limit, since their big game is two weeks off, while we were obliged to hold back our best plays on account of Broadwood. She had at least four assistant coaches and players there yesterday, but I don’t think they learned much.”
“They’ll eat us up next Saturday,” sighed Dan moodily.
“Perhaps, but I don’t think so. If they played the sort of game Nordham plays they might beat us, for we haven’t learned a defense against a running game. But Broadwood must play about the sort of game we played yesterday. Her backs are heavy, line-smashing fellows and Saturday’s game will be pretty much all what you just called ‘straight football.’ On the whole, Vinton, we didn’t do so badly to hold Nordham to three scores yesterday. She might have run us off our feet with that tricky game of hers.”
“Has Broadwood some good kickers this year?” asked Gerald.
“She’s still got Rhodes,” said Dan. “You remember him last year, don’t you?”
“I don’t believe,” said the coach, “that we need fear goals from field. They’ve only scored two all season.”
“One of those was a fluke,” added Dan.
“What we’ve got to watch out for are forward passes. They’ve been getting off some fine ones lately. They gained eighty yards in the Forest Hill game by forward passes. How is Stearns this morning?”