Football -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction
When play began again Stone was somewhat dourly looking on from the
bench and Cardin was in command. Phillipsburg had made no changes.
Phillipsburg shot a breath-taking forward from her thirty-seven yards
to Parkinson’s thirty-five, but, although it deserved to succeed,
Bob Peters had his man guarded too closely and the pass grounded. A
second attempt on a third down went better and Phillipsburg got seven
yards, three more than needed. Then, on her forty-five, she started
an advance that only slowed when she was under the Brown-and-White’s
goal. Two forward-passes, each short but certain, took her well past
midfield. After that two tricky split-plays let her clever quarter
through for scandalous gains, and, almost before Parkinson realised
what was happening, the ball was on the Brown-and-White’s twenty-one.
There was much shouting from the stands, much anxiety on the benches
as Phillipsburg stabbed the line once for practically no gain and then
dropped a tackle back to kicking position.
“Any fool could make a goal from there,” growled “Tip” Harris, who,
deposed from left tackle position, had seated himself beside Dick.
“It’s dead in front of goal and not thirty yards!”
“But do they mean to try?” asked Dick. “Seems to me one of those short
forwards of theirs----”
“Yes, but I guess they want the three points, Bates. There’s a lot
in getting first blood. Say, he doesn’t act as if he meant to kick,
though! By jiminy----” Tip raised his voice imploringly: “Watch a run,
Parkinson! Watch that man, Bob!”
Mr. Driscoll, nearby, turned disapprovingly. “Cut that, Harris,” he
ordered. Tip subsided, muttering. From the teams came many warnings:
“Hold that line, Phillipsburg! Hold that line!” “Break it up! Block
this kick, Parkinson!” “Watch that half!” “Signals! Signals!” “Come
on! Here we go!”
Back shot the ball to the tall tackle’s waiting hands. The lines
plunged and heaved. The tackle swung a long leg under him. But the ball
hadn’t left his hands, and now, pushing it into the crook of his left
elbow, he sprang off to the left, the other backs closing in about
him. As quickly as he had started, he stopped, swung directly about
and, with two Parkinson men trying to reach him past his interference,
raised the pigskin on high and threw far and swiftly. Thirty yards
away a Phillipsburg end was streaking toward the corner of the field.
Now he was past the line, well into the end zone, and not an opponent
was near him. Straight for his upstretched hands flew the ball, like a
brown streak, and not until too late did Parkinson see her danger. Then
half a dozen of her defenders sprang toward the lone enemy. But the
deed was done. Into his hands settled the ball, he turned on his heel
and plunged toward the goal and when he had been rescued from under
three brown-and-white legged opponents the pigskin was half-way between
side-line and nearer goal-post.
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