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
Lambert, supported by a team-mate, was walking off the field, his legs
decidedly wobbly and his head showing an inclination to fall over on
his chest, and a substitute was being sent in. Then Rotan punted out,
caught neatly, and sent a clean kick over the bar for another point,
and the scoreboard changed its figures to 20.
There was no more scoring in that period and none in the last
until well toward the end. Coach Bonner had sprinkled substitutes
liberally by that time, and Rotan, too, was represented by a number of
second-string players. The visitor evidently concluded that she had
piled up a sufficient score and was bent only on holding her adversary
where she was. She punted on second down frequently and managed to
keep the ball in Grafton territory until there were but six minutes
left to play. Then a fumble by a substitute Rotan half-back changed
the complexion of affairs, for Parker, who had taken Franklin’s place
at left tackle, shot through and dropped on the pigskin and it was
Grafton’s on the enemy’s thirty-two yards!
Weston, second-choice quarter, dashed on with instructions and Nick
Blake yielded his head-guard and trotted off. In the stands, Grafton
sympathizers demanded a touchdown. The Scarlet-and-Gray began an
attack on the left of the Rotan center, where Lambert had yielded to
a substitute, and first Keyes and then Bert and Vail tore through for
short but substantial gains. Down to the twenty yards went the ball,
Rotan hurrying on two fresh players to bolster her line. A forward pass
gained four yards and Bert got six past left tackle. Weston carried
the ball on a delayed play straight through center for three more. But
on her seven yards, under the shadow of her goal, Rotan stiffened. Two
plunges at the left gained little, for the secondary defense stopped
the runner in each case, and Keyes dropped back to kick. Everything
favored a score then, but luck was against the home team, for Musgrave
passed miserably and all Keyes could do was make the catch safe and try
to gain a scant two or three yards before the enemy bowled him over.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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