, and McPhee had plenty of
time to go after the pigskin, gather it in and run back a dozen yards
before the Claflin ends reached him. But after that McPhee played
further back and Rollins put still more power into his drives.

With almost ten minutes of the final period gone, Claflin, grown
desperate, tried what forward passing would do. The first time, she lost
the ball to Thayer, and Clint got ten yards before he was thrown, but
the second attempt went better and Cox, who made the catch, ran across
three white lines and only stopped when Edwards dragged him down from
behind. Claflin got another first down by two plunges at the right of
the opponent's line and a wide end-run. Then a penalty set her back
fifteen yards and she had to punt after two ineffectual attempts at
rushing. Otis got through for five yards and then Rollins punted again.

The head linesman announced five minutes to play. On the stands the
spectators were beginning to depart. Claflin was back on her thirty-five
yards, banging desperately at the maroon-and-grey line, desperately and
a bit hopelessly. A forward pass was knocked down by Captain Edwards, an
assault at the left of the Brimfield line was smeared badly, Cox tried
the other end and was laid low for a loss. Claflin punted.

Howard, on a double pass, swept around the enemy's left for fifteen
yards and then squirmed past tackle for six more. Rollins kicked to
Claflin's ten and Edwards nailed the Blue's quarter before he could
move. Brimfield cheered encouragingly. But Claflin, after getting four
around Sturges, punted out of danger to Brimfield's forty-seven.

"Three minutes!" announced the timekeeper.

Otis got two at centre and Rollins again fell back to kick. The ball
came to him low and he juggled it. Claflin poured through the right of
the line, the ball bounded back from some upthrown arm and went dancing
along the field. Blue players and maroon dashed after it. Hall almost
had it, but was toppled aside by a Claflin man. Carmine dived for it and
missed. Then Tim Otis and a Claflin forward dropped upon it
simultaneously and struggled for its possession. Tim always maintained
that he got more of it than his opponent, and got it first, but the
referee awarded it to Claflin and dismayedly Brimfield gathered
together and lined up only twenty yards from her goal!

[Illustration: The runner smashed into sight, wild-faced for an instant
before he put his head down and charged in]

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