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 have some one and Lovering was the only fellow in sight. If things haven't gone as well as they might have you can't lay any blame to Lovering. He may be partly accountable, but he isn't to blame. He's done the best he's known how. I'm certain of that. Perhaps he has made mistakes. I confess I don't know, for I'm no football authority. But I am sure he has done his level best and worked hard. Now the whole thing amounts to this. You're not satisfied with the progress the team has made. Probably the team itself isn't. Perhaps if methods of instruction or coaching or whatever you have a mind to call it, were altered things would go better. Lovering himself is here this evening. Before we go any further, why not hear from him? Perhaps he can satisfy us that things aren't as bad as they seem, that they're going to be a lot better and that when we run against Springdale next month we're going to lick her. If we do that we'll have done what we want most to do, and we'll forget all about what went before. I'd like to hear from Coach Lovering."

There followed much applause as Dick put his crutches under his arms, arose and faced the meeting. Then the hand-clapping subsided and an ex