But, after all, "Speedy" held down his familiar place on the bench throughout the opening game of the season with Carver College the following Saturday. He was glad that Peggy, who couldn't leave her post at the Hotel Tate, where football Saturdays were big days, was not in the grandstand to witness his inactivity. However, he had the pleasure of witnessing the game from a choice seat and to hear many of the inside phases of the contest from a Tate viewpoint. He was puzzled by the tactics of Coach Cavendish, who, as usual, held the entire first string Tate backfield out of the game the whole first quarter. All through this preliminary period the coach kept the four backs huddled around him as he commented upon the weaknesses of the Carver line and developed the strategy for the rest of the game. Then, as the whistle sounded for the second quarter. Cavendish slapped his best ball carriers on their respective broad backs and sent them into the fray. The famous "Big Four"—Crawford, Blythe, Houghton and Trask. And what a yell went up from the Tate stands as they reported to the referee and pranced into their places be-
