{{betlep021.png}} hands in his pockets, to give him greater confidence, it might be presumed. "I nevah made a speech in my life," he continued, "and I am quite suah that I can't make one now. But I said I'd get up here and tell you that the team is on the job. We're goin' to do the best playin' of the season tomorrow -- and that's all." "Kentucky," in the midst of uproarious applause, sauntered off the stage without a backward look, thankful, no doubt, that such a public appearance was over. It was different on the field. You were further away from the crowd and thought about what you were doing. The next member of the team began a sentence and forgot what he was going to say. But the sympathetic if laughing faces of his audience made him feel more at home. He was "terribly rattled," as one of the girls near Betty whispered, but managed to capture an idea, jerkily expressed it and succeeded in getting off the stage without falling over the band, as Dotty Bradshaw put it. But if there were anything clever or critical to be said Dotty never missed it. It was a pity, for Dotty was otherwise so attractive. [[21]]