Rivals for the Team: A Story of School Life and FootballBarbour, Ralph Henry
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Rivals for the Team: A Story of School Life and Football
Barbour, Ralph Henry
Adventure stories; Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction; Football stories
In the last period Hugh found himself in constant demand. So far
Brunswick and Manson, the left half and the full-back, had done the
brunt of the work, save when an end had run behind the line. Hugh had
been used but three times in the attack, each time taking the ball for
wide end runs and only once gaining. But now, Derry having replaced Roy
Dresser at left end, Captain Myatt changed his tactics. Second received
the ball on a punt a few minutes after the period started and it was
Neil Ayer who began the trouble. On the first play, faking a pass to
full-back, he plunged straight through the center of the first team’s
line for a down. Then came a fake end-around play, Bellows leaving
his place at left end and dashing behind Ayer and, followed by the
left half, plunging around the right wing of the line. Then, hugging
the ball a moment, Ayer shot it to Hugh, and Hugh, with full-back
interfering, went the other way. The play was good for nearly twenty
yards, for Hugh displayed an almost uncanny elusiveness, slipping
between tacklers, dodging, twisting and always going ahead. Manson
was soon upset, but Hugh feinted and fought on to the forty-eight
yards before he was finally stopped. The second laughed and taunted
as they lined up again. Manson shot into left tackle but was stopped
for a yard. Ayer tried a quarter-back run and made three. Then Hugh
heard the signals again summon him. This time it was a straight run
around his own left end. Derry was pulled out and Franklin was neatly
boxed and only the first team’s secondary defence kept Hugh from again
getting safely away. As it was he added six yards and made first down
once more. Brunswick fumbled on the next play and Manson recovered for
a five-yard loss. Hugh failed on a wide run around his own left end,
being thrown by Ted Trafford, and Ayer kicked from position.
The first came back hard then and tested the second’s defence pretty
severely. Siedhof gave place to Hanser on the first and Boynton took
Brunswick’s place on the second. The second also put in a new left
tackle and a new left guard. First was using straight line-plunges
and getting away with them. On the second’s fifteen yards Vail, right
half on the first, was hurt in a tackle and Zanetti went in. Twice the
second held the besiegers under the shadow of their goal and then Ted
Trafford tried another goal from placement and barely made it.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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