The men are all pretty nearly equal, which doesn't give you a chance to tower head and shoulders above the other players.

Usually, in the years that I know anything of, it has been the other way.

There have been only two or three star players in the squad, and the captain was usually one of the very best.
You're plenty good enough football man, Wolgast, but there are so many other pretty good ones that you don't outshine the others as much as captains of poorer teams have done in other years." "By Jupiter! Darry has hit it!" cried Farley, leaping from his seat.

"Wolly, you have the luck to command an eleven in which most of the men are nearly, if not quite, as good as the captain.
You're not head and shoulders over the rest, and you don't tower---that's all.

Wolly, I apologize for my criticisms.