"He wouldn't have made that if Minter hadn't fumbled," he said. "Any one can pick up a ball when somebody else muffs it." "You've got to admit that he was the only one who did pick it up though there were twenty-one others who might have done it," said Stewart. "I suppose now he'll have a bigger swelled head than ever." "He'll get his just the same before the game's over," prophesied Sandy. "It was just a bit of beginner's luck." Thompson kicked off to Dittler, who caught the ball on his ten-yard line and ran it back twenty-four yards before he was tackled so hard by Maddern that he was knocked breathless. The ball was recovered by Payne and it was the regulars' ball on the scrubs' thirty-three yard line. Knapp broke through the scrub line for a twelve-yard gain and a first down on the scrubs' twenty-one yard line. Not satisfied with that, he made a further gain of three yards between left and tackle. A forward pass failed, but on the fourth down Wynn dropped back and made a drop-kick that sailed over the bar like a bird, scoring three points for the regulars. This was equalled five minutes later when Nick also kicked a field goal. Both sides were fighting hard now, and the ball went back and forth, mostly in the territory of the scrubs, till the period ended with the score 10 to 3 in favor of the despised scrubs. There was plenty of cheering from the freshmen and the grammar school boys, while the upper classmen were for the most part glum and silent. The face of Coach Garwin was as inscrutable as that of the Sphinx. But he was not averse to seeing the regulars take their medicine--it would be a good thing to have some of their overconfidence knocked out of them--and it pleased him to see the kind of material he had on the scrubs. The time might come when he would need it all. In the minute of rest between the first and second period Wynn passed among his men, spurring them on to avoid the disgrace that threatened of being beaten by the scrubs. Garry, too, improved the opportunity to give his jubilant mates a word of warning. "Don't get too chesty, fellows," he admonished. "We've just started to fight. The hardest part is yet to come. Seven points to the good is seven points, but the game is young yet. They're more dangerous now than they were before, because they know they've got to work to beat us. Keep it up, fellows, keep it up!" The first period had ended with the ball only twenty yards away from the scrubs' goal line and in the possession of the regulars.