CHAPTER XXIII
CABLE KICKS OFF
There was a final gathering of the council
at Dick's that evening, what time the School
was conducting its last football mass-meeting
in assembly hall. Lanny, Cottrell, Cotner and
Tupper attended; and Dick, of course. Tupper
had been asked to come since Dick wanted to
go over carefully the plays that were to be used
in the morrow's game, and it had been decided that
in case Lanny was forced to leave the team George
Tupper should act as captain. They were all rather
serious to-night. Lanny especially, showed the
strain. Dick felt it but did not show it. Of the
five, Chester Cottrell alone seemed fairly in his
usual condition of mind.
Together they went through the game from start to finish, providing as well as they might for every
