Bert got back to light practice the next afternoon but not into the game with the scrubs. Siedhof and Zanetti were the halves that day, with Hugh substituting for Zanetti toward the end of the last period. If the truth must be told, Hugh did not cover himself with glory, for he fumbled once at a critical moment and lost his team a chance to score and never made a gain worth recording. But it was perhaps more due to stage fright than anything else, and Coach Bonner realized the fact and dealt out no criticism. Oddly enough, it was the released Hanser who performed the only spectacular feat of a slow and listless game when he squirmed through the left of the first team’s line, threw off Siedhof’s tackle and romped straight down the field for twenty-five or -six yards before Nick stopped him. That incident spelled the end of Kinley as regular left guard. Yetter succeeded him before the next play and held the position the balance of the season. Kinley had been a troublesome problem all the fall and with his retirement the left side of the line stiffened considerably. Mr. Crowley had his joke with Coach Bonner on the performances of the exchanged half-backs, but the latter only smiled and said “Wait.” There was only signal work on Friday for the first-team members and most of the school attended the final class game over on the practice gridiron and saw lower middle triumph over upper middle by the score of 7 to 0. Lawrence Textile School presented a strong team the next afternoon and started the proceedings by dropping a kick over Grafton’s goal six minutes after play began. Grafton put on her strongest line-up, Vail, whose injury had proved more stubborn than expected, being the only regular member absent. Bert showed the results of his idleness and was off his game. Hugh did not get in. Grafton’s only score came in the second period when two forward passes took the ball from her forty yards to Textile’s eighteen and Zanetti gained around the left end and Keyes gathered enough to make it first down by a plunge on the Textile right guard. From the seven-yard line the ball went over in three plays, one a delayed pass to full-back, who got three yards through center, another a skin-tackle play by Bert that put the pigskin on the two yards, and the third a straight plunge by Keyes with the whole team behind him. Keyes kicked an easy goal. But that was the only time Grafton was dangerous. In the last half it was all Textile, and the visitors secured a touchdown in each period and kicked a goal each time. The final score was 17 to 7.