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 The trouble is the fellow who tells them what to do doesn't know his business. He's had no experience. He never played a game of football in his life. He couldn't because"

"Shame!" cried the girls, and some of the audience hissed. Sears rapped his knuckles smartly on the table.

"The meeting will come to order," he said severely. "And I must warn the speaker that personalities must be kept out of this discussion."

"Mr. Chairman, I am speaking of the football coach. If we can't discuss the coach what's the good of this meeting? Besides, I see that he is here in person to answer for himself. I suppose he thought that if he came we wouldn't dare criticize him. If he thought that he is dead wrong. We have a right to protest against his haphazard, ridiculous system of coaching and to demand that he either show results or yield his position to some one else, some one who at least knows the difference between a touchdown and a head-guard!"

"Nominate Bingham for coach!" shouted a small youth in the back of the hall and this time the laughter was spontaneous and prolonged, so prolonged, in spite of the chairman's stern demands for