were moving toward the gymnasium deep in the discussion of the coming game and their chances for success over their opponents.
A brief meeting was held, and the girls were assigned to their positions.

Grace had fully intended that Miriam should play center, but when she proposed it, Miriam flatly refused to do so, and asked for her old position of right forward.
"You are our captain," she declared to Grace, "and the best center I ever saw on a girls' team.

It would be folly to change now.

Don't you agree with me, girls ?" Nora was detailed as left forward, while Marian Barber and Eva Allen played right and left guards.

The substitutes were also assigned their positions and practice began.
Before they had been on the floor twenty minutes the girls were thoroughly alive to the joy of the game and worked with the old-time dash and spirit that had won them the championship the previous year.
Now that they were in harmony with each other, they played with remarkable unity, and after an hour's practice Grace decided that they were in a fair way to "whip the seniors off the face of the earth." "I never saw you girls work better!" she exclaimed.