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 I'm going to tell you even at the risk of making the team overconfident, which is something it can't afford to be. I think we're going to win, and win decisively!" Dick had to wait for the applause to subside then. "I don't mean by that that we'll pile up a big score, for I think the teams will be too evenly matched to score many times. But I do mean that when the battle is over there won't be any doubt as to which is the better team. I'm not belittling the enemy. Springdale has a fine team, a team at least twenty-five per cent better than she had last year. You have only to study the results of the games she has played this season to realize that. But, on the other hand, we've got a fine team, too. Along"

More cheering then, wild and continued.

"Along in the middle of the season I told you that our team was no more than an averagely good one, I think. It wasn't—then. Now it is. It's as good a team as ever represented the School, and that's saying not a little when you recall some of the teams, which, although not very lately, have defeated Springdale by overwhelming scores. But good as it is, it's got to play hard, play for all it's worth, play like—like thunder! The Springdale line is a strong one. Few teams have made much impression on it