It was Dan Sheldon's picturesque description of Mike Cavendish, coach of the Tate University football team, that Mike was so tough that he shaved with a blow torch. But this was a trifle exaggerated, the distortion being possibly due to Sheldon's sad experience with the Tate football mentor back ia the fall of Freshman year.
Dan was for one short week a candidate for the 1928 gridiron team. The Freshman eleven was not coached directly by the redoubtable Cavendish. "Curly" Evans, only a few years out of Tate himself and a much milder man than Mike, was the overseer of the yearling squad. "Curly" was scrimmaging his first and second teams that fatal Autumn late afternoon when Cavendish, who was head of all Tate football and hence "Curly's" boss, wandered over from the varsity field. Dan Sheldon, with little hope of making the team, was playing an indifferent game at end on the second Freshman team.
The first team quarterback barked a signal. The ball was passed. The opposing forwards charged. The halfback with the ball shot into the line off tackle, bumped into a stone
