“It looks good to me,” said Loring emphatically. “I wish we’d had it this afternoon to spring on those smart-alecks!”
“Yes, I think we can make that go, Vinton,” said Payson. “Anyhow we’ll try it against the Second on Monday.”
“Ridge will know the play, though,” Loring objected.
“We’ll give him that advantage,” answered Payson cheerfully with a smile at the Second Team’s captain. “Then if we fool him we’ll be pretty sure we’ve got something good.”
“That ought to make a good play near the goal,” said Colton. “Here’s one thing, though, that we’ve forgotten. Broadwood plays her ends ten yards back on everything except close-formations. That’ll put her right end just about where our left end makes his catch.”
He altered the position of the two green checkers marked “L.E.” and “R.E.”
“I guess that queers it,” sighed Hill regretfully.
“Hold on,” said Payson. “Left tackle can look after that end and keep him out of the way. By that time it won’t matter if his man gets through, although it’s likely that his man will be going around back by that time. We’ll give it a good fair trial, anyhow. I think it will work. If we try a bunch pass first and then this, it’ll fool them.”
He took up his memorandum book and diagramed the play in it, numbering it 17 and 18, seventeen indicating that the play was to be made to the left and eighteen that it was to go to the right. After that, other matters and plays were discussed and it was well along toward ten o’clock when the meeting broke up. When Dan reached his room, after bidding good-night to the others, he found Tubby and Jake Hiltz in possession. Tubby, for once, was in a pleasant humor, and Dan wondered what happened to work such a marvel. Jake took his departure at ten and Dan and Tubby went to bed, the former to dream of a wonderful forward pass in which Alf Loring was the ball and was hurled about by Payson and dexterously caught by Dan for long gains netting numerous touchdowns.