Three minutes later two midshipmen were being whirled through the city
limits of Gridley.




CHAPTER V

NAVY FOOTBALL IN THE AIR


Back on the old, familiar Academy grounds!

Both Dave and Dan underwent an unconscious brace as they passed the
watchman at the main gate and stepped on, each with a suit case in hand,
to the left, with Bancroft Hall in the distance.

Their first move was, as it must be, to report their return to the
officer in charge. By that officer the two midshipmen were assigned to
the rooms that they were to occupy during the coming academic year.

Once behind their doors, both young men hastened to get out of cit.
clothes and back into their beloved uniforms.

"There are worse liveries to wear than Uncle Sam's," murmured Dan
Dalzell when, having arrayed himself, he glanced down lovingly at the
neat, dark blue.

"Much worse," replied Dave briefly, as, having dressed, he set to work to
help make their quarters neat enough to please even the captious eye of