ven, and though
the men were as a rule individually brilliant or decidedly promising,
Woodby had far the best of it there. Fumbles were many on both sides,
but Erskine's were the most costly. Stone's fumble of a free kick soon
after the second half began gave Woodby her second touch-down, from
which, luckily, she failed to kick goal. The veterans on the team,
Tucker at left tackle, Graham at center, Cowan at right-guard, Foster at
quarter, and Devoe at right end, played well with the glaring exception
of Cowan, whose work in the second half especially was so slipshod that
Mills, with wrath in his eye, took him out and put in Bell, a second
eleven man.

With the score 11 to 6 against her, Erskine braced up and fought
doggedly to score. Neil proved the best ground-gainer, and made several
five-and ten-yard runs around right end. Once, with the ball on Woodby's
twelve yards and the audience shouting vehemently for a touch-down,
Foster called on Paul for a plunge through right tackle. Paul made two
yards, but in some manner lost the ball, a fumble that put Erskine back
on her fifty-yard line and that sent her hopes of tying the score
down to zero.

The second half was to be but fifteen minutes long, and fully ten of the
fifteen had gone by when Erskine took up her journey toward Woodby's
goal again. Mason, the full-back, and Neil were sent plunging, bucking,
hurdling at the enemy's breastworks, and time after time just managed to
gain their distance in the three downs. Fortune was favoring Erskine,
and Woodby's lighter men were slower and slower in finding their
positions after each pile-up. Then, with the pigskin on Woodby's
twenty-eight yards, Neil was given the ball for a try outside of right
tackle, and by brilliantly leaving his interference, which had become
badly tangled up, got safely away and staggered over the line just at
the corner. The punt-out was a success and Devoe kicked goal, making the
score 12 to 11 in Erskine's favor. For the rest of the half the home
team was satisfied to keep Woodby away from its goal, and made no effort
to score. Woodby left the field after the fashion of victors, which,
practically, they were, while the Erskine players trotted subduedly back
to the locker-house with unpleasant anticipations of what was before
them--anticipations fully justified by subsequent events. For Mills tore
them up very eloquently, and promised them that if they were scored on
by the second eleven before th