"Where do you get your authority for that play ?" Mr.
Conklin would ask a trifle irritably.

Thereupon, silently but with a twinkle in his eye, the coach would gravely take the book, flip the pages, lay a finger on a section and return it.
"Hm," Mr.Conklin would say.

"Hm; but that seems to be in direct contradiction of another rule over here!" "Quite likely," the coach would reply indifferently.

"There are quite a few contradictions there.

Of course, you may accept either rule you like, gentlemen." Disarmed in such wise, the officials invariably decided the play to be legal, and Quarter-back Milton, of Brimfield, would protest volubly and get very, very red in the face in his attempt to carry his point and, at the same time, omit none of the respect due a faculty member! It was hard on Milton, that game, and several times he nearly had apoplexy.
Then, too, Canterbury did the most unexpected things at the most inopportune moments.