CHAPTER VI.
POSTING AND DIRECTING THE PLAYERS.
The men of each side should be posted and directed by the players who tossed up, if they are competent, or by the regular captains. The best way is to have two regularly appointed captains in a club, who always take opposite sides. No one captain can do justice to both sides.
The players most generally take up their positions sans cérémonie, but we would suggest the following prelude: After the sides are chosen, and goals selected, each captain draws his men up, facing each other in the centre of the field, and dresses them as companies in line. The men intended for the attack, and those for the defence, should be on the flank nearest to their posts. The two centres, who should be in the centre of the lines, step out and prepare for facing. At the words "take posts" from the senior
