Hugh got into it in the second ten-minute period and played through that and most of the third, until a blow on the head turned him so dizzy that Davy Richards, hovering about the scene like an anxious mother hen, called him out. He did good work on the defence, too, considering his lack of weight. He seemed gifted with the faculty of anticipating the play and getting into it almost before it reached the line, although it was really less a gift than it appeared. What Hugh did was to watch the ball, instead of the players, and more than once Nick’s shouted warning proved wrong and Hugh’s diagnosis correct. He was pretty roughly used, for the second was in no mood to deal gently with objects in its way, and frequently he fumed in secret at his lack of weight. In the final period――the second had so far failed to cross the defender’s line――the second was given the ball four times in succession on the first team’s ten yards and urged to take it over. But it was not until they had been allowed an extra down, with the ball on the two yards, that Manson piled through between Musgrave and Yetter and scored the single tally. It was in that mix-up that Hugh got his knock-out and Vail went in to finish the game. Monday’s practice was a fair example of every day’s proceedings until Thursday. On Thursday the lower middle team, champions of the school, trotted over and faced the first. They proved an easy prey, and the first had little difficulty in running up twenty-seven points while the lower middlers were earning a scant six by the air route. Coach Bonner tried out two new plays which the first had been learning, and was able to gain with each several times. The best for all-round purposes was a split play in which an end shifted to the other side of the line and played some two yards back. The backs arranged themselves in oblique tandem, the ball went to full-back, quarter and the back-field end swung around one wing, the two half-backs around the other and the full-back plunged straight ahead, usually finding his passage clear. It was rather a difficult play for the opponent to diagnose, for it had all the earmarks of a forward-pass to either side of the field. The lower middlers never did solve it, although that by no means guaranteed that it would succeed more than once against Mount Morris.