Phillipsburg waved and cheered, and stood on the seats and howled, while from across the gridiron came a fainter but defiant “Parkinson! _Parkinson!_ PARKINSON!” Mr. Driscoll turned his countenance to the bench and shook his head, smiling ruefully. “Half our team asleep, fellows,” he said. “Scoville, go in for Furniss! Warm up, Gaines!” Phillipsburg missed a fairly easy goal after the touchdown and play began again in midfield. There was no more scoring in the quarter although Gaines, restored to his place at half, twice almost got clear. Under Cardin’s direction, Parkinson thrice tried forward-passes and but once succeeded. Then Gaines, catching, reeled off a dozen yards before he was forced out of bounds. The half ended with the score still 6-0. There was some hard, plain talk in the gymnasium for the Parkinson audience. Mr. Driscoll was far from pleased and he didn’t hesitate to make the fact known. “You fellows have been taught football for two years, some of you longer, and yet you went out there and just stood around all during the first period. That sort of thing won’t win games! Do something! Try something! If you can’t do anything else, worry your opponent. All you did was to hand him the ball back. Stone, a lot of that was up to you. You had your instructions to try out your overhead game, and your running game, and what did you do? You went at the line every time you got the ball! Now I’m going to start in with the beginning of this last half and use the bench. If you don’t want to get licked, use your heads and play football! You can score if you try hard enough. You ought to score at least twice. And if you let those fellows get close enough to your goal to pull another of those forwards over the line you deserve to lose! You were all asleep, every man Jack of you! Long, where were you when that happened? And you, Gross? And you, Stone? Someone’s got to watch the end of the line, fellows! You can’t all go off visiting like that! You’ve each got a duty to perform on every play and you each know it, but just because the other fellow pulls something you haven’t met up with since last year you forget everything and go straggling after him to see what he’ll do! You stay in position after this, no matter what the other fellow does. Another thing--and I’m aiming this at you, Wendell, more than anyone--watch your hands. The rules require that no part of your body shall be ahead of the line of scrimmage. If the umpire was strict he’d have called you off-side twenty times. Keep your arms down and your hands back until the ball’s in play. After that I don’t care how fast you bring them up. Now, then, we’re going to play fast ball this half. Pryne, you’re quarter. Keep the team on the jump every minute. Start your signal the minute the whistle blows and make your men hustle to positions so that the play can snap off quickly. You’ve been loafing for two periods. Now I want to see some _work_! I want a score inside the next twelve minutes.