"The truth, if anything, is that Danny boy and I can hardly hope to hold the Army pair back.

You see, Hep, I know Prescott and Holmes pretty well, from the fact that we played together on the same High School eleven for two years.

Prescott, in fact, was the boy who trained us all." "Well, don't let the Navy fellows get the idea that you're afraid of that Army pair," begged Hepson.

"It might get our men discouraged.

Darry, we simply must wipe up the field with the Army! There isn't--there can't be any such word as 'defeat' for us." As the time drew near for the greatest of all annual games the instructors at the Naval Academy began to record lower marks for nearly all of the men in the daily recitations.