CHAPTER XXII
CHEERS, SONGS AND SPEECHES
That Tuesday afternoon practice was the
hardest of the season. For four twelve-minute
periods, the Scrubs, driven to desperation
by Dick's reiterated assertion that this was their last
chance to show what they could really do, eternally
prodded by Captain Nostrand and taunted until they
were fighting mad by Quarterback Farrar, drove at
the Varsity as if their future salvation depended on
the utter demolition of the adversary! Nostrand
thumped them on the backs, even kicked them none
too gently when they crouched too high on defense,
shouted threats and pleas until his voice cracked.
Pete Farrar shrilly called them names: "bone-heads,"
"quitters," "babies," "pups," and dared them to show
one tiny scrap of intelligence, of fight! And Dick,
hobbling from one side to the other, scolding, in-
