Beaver has formed a football team and he is the captain of the Lightening Eleven. Rick Rickover is the captain on the other team, The Tigers, because Rick has a shirt with a tiger on it. Wally offers himself and Eddie as coaches and Beaver accepts. Ward offers a reminisce about his childhood when they played with a cap stuffed with newspapers as a helmet, and with cardboard stuffed down into their knickers for knee pads. Wally figures Ward and his friends must have made for a funny looking team. Beaver wonders is this means he isn't getting a helmet and shoulder pads, but Ward says he will get Beaver what he needs, Wally tries coaching the kids and finds out quickly they need a lot of coaching when Gilbert has a problem from the start of picking right from left. But after a while they begin to come together, and Wally even teaches the boys a secret play which he dubs old 98. Wally and Eddie head over to Wally's for lunch; but Beaver and his teammates go off to the soda shop to no doubt reward themselves for a tough practice.
On Beaver's way home, he stops sits under a tree to enjoy his ice cream come. Penny Woods walks by and stops to sit with Beaver. Penny wants to know if Beaver thinks they will beat the Grant Avenue Tigers. Beaver feels they can because they have a secret play which he promptly describes and demonstrates to Penny. Beaver heads off to his home leaving Penny.
Rick comes by and teases Penny about her dumb brother. Penny says her dumb brother and Beaver are going to beat Rick and his Tigers with a secret play. Then Penny then ends up telling Rick the secret play and well, goodbye secret play. Old 98 is now old double zero. Rick looks at the kid with him and says he knows for sure that Penny is even dumber than her dumb brother.
The next day is the big game and both Ward and June are planning to go but Beaver would rather they not come. If Beaver got all bloody and stuff then June start making a fuss and embarrass Beaver. Wally reassures them that he will be there if he needs to call an ambulance and stuff.
The game is about to start and he kids are trash talking. Rick says the Tigers will wipe the Eleven; and Beaver says the Eleven will clobber the Tigers. The games starts off with a huge pile on and Gilbert wants to use the secret play but Beaver wants to hold on until it's needed. Then in the final quarter when Beaver calls 98 he's pummeled: old 98 isn't working. Worse, the Tigers intercept the ball and score the winning touchdown on a fumble.
Ward and Wally get home first to announce Beaver lost. June believes that's OK because Beaver is just a baby and a poor little dear. Wally cautions June about saying that when Beaver is around. On his way home Beaver meets Penny who says she told Rick that Beaver would win the game using a secret play and how it worked. Why did Penny do that? Because Beaver is a nice boy. As far as Beaver is concerned, Penny is one big dumb girl. As for Penny, she is so angry at Beaver that she promises never to speak to him again.
Beaver has a talk with Ward about what happened and how could a girl be so dumb as to blab. Ward reminds Beaver that he blabbed first; and that he should never share a secret he doesn't want shared. Beaver figures girls are a worse risk than guys, right. Ward egress but suggests he doesn't repeat that to his mother. When June walks in asks what was being said; Beaver says it's nothing, just two men talking.
We credit Benjamin Franklin with the aphorism "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. A little drastic for Beaver to follow, or for anyone practically. The overriding message though about secrets won't last long in Beaver's case as we know Beaver doesn't seem to learn from experience or from reading, which he doesn't seem to do much of. We have Wally though as a counterweight thank god.
On Beaver's way home, he stops sits under a tree to enjoy his ice cream come. Penny Woods walks by and stops to sit with Beaver. Penny wants to know if Beaver thinks they will beat the Grant Avenue Tigers. Beaver feels they can because they have a secret play which he promptly describes and demonstrates to Penny. Beaver heads off to his home leaving Penny.
Rick comes by and teases Penny about her dumb brother. Penny says her dumb brother and Beaver are going to beat Rick and his Tigers with a secret play. Then Penny then ends up telling Rick the secret play and well, goodbye secret play. Old 98 is now old double zero. Rick looks at the kid with him and says he knows for sure that Penny is even dumber than her dumb brother.
The next day is the big game and both Ward and June are planning to go but Beaver would rather they not come. If Beaver got all bloody and stuff then June start making a fuss and embarrass Beaver. Wally reassures them that he will be there if he needs to call an ambulance and stuff.
The game is about to start and he kids are trash talking. Rick says the Tigers will wipe the Eleven; and Beaver says the Eleven will clobber the Tigers. The games starts off with a huge pile on and Gilbert wants to use the secret play but Beaver wants to hold on until it's needed. Then in the final quarter when Beaver calls 98 he's pummeled: old 98 isn't working. Worse, the Tigers intercept the ball and score the winning touchdown on a fumble.
Ward and Wally get home first to announce Beaver lost. June believes that's OK because Beaver is just a baby and a poor little dear. Wally cautions June about saying that when Beaver is around. On his way home Beaver meets Penny who says she told Rick that Beaver would win the game using a secret play and how it worked. Why did Penny do that? Because Beaver is a nice boy. As far as Beaver is concerned, Penny is one big dumb girl. As for Penny, she is so angry at Beaver that she promises never to speak to him again.
Beaver has a talk with Ward about what happened and how could a girl be so dumb as to blab. Ward reminds Beaver that he blabbed first; and that he should never share a secret he doesn't want shared. Beaver figures girls are a worse risk than guys, right. Ward egress but suggests he doesn't repeat that to his mother. When June walks in asks what was being said; Beaver says it's nothing, just two men talking.
We credit Benjamin Franklin with the aphorism "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. A little drastic for Beaver to follow, or for anyone practically. The overriding message though about secrets won't last long in Beaver's case as we know Beaver doesn't seem to learn from experience or from reading, which he doesn't seem to do much of. We have Wally though as a counterweight thank god.
