the gas, got pencil and paper and went back to bed and worked it out.
And here it is."

He drew a carefully folded slip of paper from his pocket and handed it
across to Mills. The diagram, just as the head coach received it, is
reproduced here.

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Mills studied it for a minute in silence; once he grunted; once he
looked wonderingly up at Sydney. In the end he laid it beside him on
the desk.

"I think you've got it, Burr," he said quietly, "I think you've got it,
my boy. If this works out the way it should, your nightmare will be the
luckiest thing that's happened at Erskine for several years. Draw your
chair up here--I beg your pardon; I forgot. I'll do the moving myself."
He placed his own chair beside Sydney's and handed the diagram to
him. "Now just go over this, will you; tell me just what your idea is."

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Sydney, still excited over the night's happenings, drew a ready pencil
from his pocket, and began rather breathlessly:

"I've placed the Robinson players in the positions that our second team
occupies for the tackle-tandem. Full-back, left tackle, and right half,
one behind the other, back of their guard-tackle hole. Now, as the ball
goes into play their tandem starts. Quarter passes the ball to tackle,
or maybe right half, and they plunge through our line. That's what they