While it is an extremely difficult feat to kick the ball over the bar and between the uprights from a position on the thirty-yard line close to the boundary, it is not particularly difficult to accomplish the same thing from a position in front of the goal. And, of course, the difficulty decreases as the center of the line is approached. Doubtless this thought occurred to the Mt. Millard quarter, for when the ball left the hands of the center it didn’t go to the kneeling quarter but to the left half, standing some four yards back of the left guard-tackle hole. At the signal the full-back started across the field, followed, when the ball went into play, by the right half and quarter. Left half turned with the ball and, just as the defense yielded behind him, threw it across to the full-back. The pass was lateral and a good fifteen yards in length. Full-back made a clean catch of it, continued for another three or four strides and stopped abruptly. Right half-back and quarter met the first of the enemy, and at that moment the full-back’s leg swung, the ball rebounded from the sod, was met by a capable foot and went upwards and away just as Alton reënforcements came up. The drop-kick was made from a point some eight yards short of the middle of the field and close to the twenty-eight yards, and the ball sailed squarely over the center of the bar! Of course it was an absolutely impossible sort of play. It just couldn’t be done! Alton blankly assured herself of that. But the assurance brought no consolation since, you see, it had been done! Mt. Millard’s supporters went quite crazy with delight and the full-back was pummeled by his enthusiastic team-mates. Alton recovering from her surprise, congregated about the officials and protested the play. Captain Jonas declared, doubtfully though, that a drop-kick following a side pass was illegal, but, when instructed to point to the rule covering the point, he could only shake his head. Mt. Millard’s name on the small score-board above the stand was graced by an excited youth with a large figure 3 and the game proceeded. That lone tally was unchanged when the half ended.