"They're big fellows.

They weigh a ton and a half to our ton." "Lightness and speed count for more than beef in this game," smiled Prescott.
"Lehigh has sent some huskies, all right, and they look as if they'd give us a tough battle." In baseball and football West Point plays college teams.

The college men are generally older and much heavier.

Besides, the college men, not having the same intense grind at their institutions, are able to devote four or five times as much actual time to the work of training.
Despite these handicaps, the West Point team generally holds its own end up very well indeed.

The West Point men have one advantage; they are always in training, for which reason their bodily condition is always good.