Nip Storer caught near his fifteen yards and found the enemy presenting a tough resistance to his advance and was satisfied with reaching the twenty-two. A wide sweep, with Jim Galvin carrying the ball from kicking position netted all but one yard of the required ten, and after Nip had failed to get the distance on a plunge at guard he punted to Mt. Millard’s thirty-three. Dutch Kruger was on hand when the local quarter-back got the ball and stopped the latter for a two-yard gain. Mt. Millard tried out Thomas and made two and swung around Savell’s end for three more. A heave over the center grounded and the ball sailed back to Alton’s twenty where Lovell caught, fumbled and recovered on the twenty-seven. The Gray-and-Gold used the sweep play and crossed the middle of the field in six downs. There, however, Lovell again fumbled and Mt. Millard got the pigskin. A thrust at Meecham yielded a couple of yards and the quarter skimmed Savell for three more. On third down a double pass, with the ball finally going off toward the side line to a waiting end, almost succeeded, but Kruger leaped into the air at the last possible instant and knocked the oval down. Mt. Millard faked a punt and made it first down with a six yard run by full-back. Two slams at the left of the line netted five yards and a criss-cross sent a back grinding off Haines for three more. Again a punt was faked and Mt. Millard threw straight over center and well down the field for a sixteen-yard advance that put the ball on Alton’s twenty-four. There Alton braced and on two plunges the opponent lost three yards. A fake forward-pass became a wide sprint by left half, but he was tumbled by Thomas and it was fourth down with nine to go and the pigskin close to a side-line. It was then that the home team won the visitor’s vast respect. The angle was too sharp to allow of a field-goal attempt with any hope of success. Nine yards had to be gained if possession of the ball was to be retained. Alton’s line had so far proved too strong for assaults between tackles. Consequently there remained, apparently at least, three courses for Mt. Millard. She could try a forward-pass, an off-tackle play or an end run. To Alton the forward-pass seemed the likeliest, since Mt. Millard had shown herself able to gain in that manner. Consequently when the home team sent her kicker back to position well over the thirty-yard line the adversary was sure that a heave across the line would follow, and her backs formed to cover. That the Mt. Millard quarter patted the ground smooth and knelt to receive the pass from center failed to alter the enemy’s mind. All that elaborate preparatory stuff was as old as the hills! The ball would shoot straight to the full-back, who had been on the forwarding end of two of Mt. Millard’s heaves, and he would throw. But Alton was due to see a play new in her experience.