The stands were yelling wildly. Judd dodged in behind his
interference. He crossed three white chalked lines without trouble.
Then the interference crumpled and went down in a heap. Judd saw a
big, dark looking face come close to his own, and eager outstretched
arms. Instinctively he stuck out his hand and the face vanished. But
another and yet another figure loomed up ahead! Judd turned to the
left hoping to escape, but he was struck by two tacklers, one from each
side. He crawled to his feet with team-mates thumping him on the back,
and looked about him. The ball was on Pennington's forty-five yard
line. Judd had made a twenty-five yard run!
He had barely time to catch his breath. Neil was yelling signals and
the next play came straight through his position. Judd strained every
muscle, felt the opposing line give, and saw Benz shoot through for a
six yard gain. A succession of plays gave Bartlett first down!
But Pennington was fighting desperately. Although Bartlett rushed the
ball to the twenty yard line it went over on downs and Pennington
punted out of danger.
The greater part of the quarter was very evenly contested. The ball
changed hands many times, neither team being able to gain consistently.
Judd's great defensive work, he seeming to be in the heart of every
play, helped wonderfully toward breaking the backbone of the Pennington
offense.
In the latter part of the quarter, with the ball in Bartlett's
possession on the fifty yard line, Benz negotiated a pretty twenty yard
run around the left end of the line. While making a sharp turn to
avoid a tackle, however, Benz sprained his right ankle. Time was taken
out and the ankle bandaged up.
This was a serious blow to the team as Benz had been called into
service extensively to punt Bartlett out of danger. He also had been
the best ground gainer. The team was again disheartened as they
changed goals prior to the playing of the last quarter.
Judd sensed the drooping spirits of his teammates and called out
encouragingly: "Never mind that, pals. Let's die fightin'. We're not
whipped yet!"
Pole and Potts, right end and tackle, respectively, were both badly
bruised and exhausted, but game to the core. Benz was staying in the
line-up though he could scarcely stand. Left tackle, Oole, playing
next to Judd, had done nothing for the last five minutes, but fill the
gap at his position. The rube had been doing the work of two men most
of the quarter. The score still stood, Pennington, 13; Bartlett, 0.
The last quarter opened with Harriett's ball on Pennington's thirty
yard line. Now that Benz was practically laid out, Neil called upon
Patterson and Gary to do the bulk of the work in carrying the ball.
Bartlett made a slow but steady advance. Neil, finding that Judd
opened big holes on every play, sent most of his plays through that
side of the line. Benz limped along, helping what he could as
interference.
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