Nick had various sobriquets for Hugh. Sometimes he was “Your Grace,” sometimes “The Duke of Glyndestoke,” sometimes just “’Ighness.” Eventually, though, it was Nick who discovered in the school catalogue, when that was issued in October, that Hugh’s full name as there set down was Hugh Oswald Brodwick Ordway, and, in consequence of the initials, promptly dubbed him “Hobo!” Possibly it was its absolute incongruity that made that nickname instantly popular. At all events, while Hugh’s more intimate friends did not ordinarily call him “Hobo,” others and the school in general did. But that was later, when Hugh, greatly to his surprise, found himself a rather important person at Grafton. Meanwhile, in that first fortnight of the fall term, Hugh was a very busy youth. He pegged away unfalteringly at football and began to like it, in spite of the drudgery. He weathered two cuts in the squad and saw other fellows with far more experience released to private life or their class teams. When, the second Saturday after the opening of the term, Grafton played the local high school and won without trouble by the score of 26–0, Hugh saw the game from the stand, and, with Guy Murtha to elucidate obscure points, enjoyed it vastly. High School presented a team badly in need of practice and Grafton ran rings about her and could have scored at least twice more had Coach Bonner thought fit to let her do so. But when the third period was a few minutes old and the score was 20–0, he began to send in second-string players, with the result that Grafton’s offensive powers waned perceptibly. One more touchdown was secured against the opponent in the last few minutes of the final period when Siedhof, who had substituted Bert Winslow at left half, secured the ball after High School had blocked Nate Leddy’s try-at-goal. Siedhof picked the ball literally from a High School forward’s hands and in some miraculous manner swung around and dodged and feinted his way through a crowded field and over six white lines to a score. Leddy missed the goal and play ended soon after. Grafton showed the benefit of those ten days of ante-season practice so long as her first-string men were in the line-up, and, on the whole, coach, captain, players, and supporters were well satisfied with the showing made in that first contest.