noon on
Saturday
In Lincoln Hall , at meal time , there had been a hum of eager conversation : the Jefferson team had arrived in Hamilton and had gone to comfortable quarters at Grey Stone Inn , three miles from the school . They would remain at the inn until just before the game , when they would come to the field in automobiles . Several of the Ridgleyites who had been in the station at the time of the visitors ' arrival reported that the Jefferson players were `` huskies '' and that Norris , the renowned full-back , was the biggest `` of the lot . '' The main body of Jefferson students would arrive by special train at noon on Saturday . Many a member of Ridgley School on this eve of the great struggle was filled with a feeling of restlessness ; it seemed that the minutes were dragging with indescribable slowness , that the night would never pass and that the hour would never come when the referee would blow his whistle to start the contest upon which the Ridgley hopes and fears were centered . Among those restless spirits who longed for some way to speed the minutes was Snubby Turner . He had gone down to the Hamilton Station and had come away not at all reassured by the sight that had met his eyes .