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There were two games played on Wyndham Field on Saturday. At two
o’clock the Wyndham and Wolcott Scrub Teams met and, since the High
Point contest was not to begin until three, the School surrounded the
farther gridiron and cheered lustily for the Scrub. When it was obliged
to leave in order to be present at the kick-off of the more important
contest the score was 7 to 7, the third period was a minute or two old
and it was anybody’s game. There were some staunch supporters, however,
who remained until the last, and they were well repaid, for it was the
final fifteen minutes that held the real thrills.
Both Wyndham and Wolcott were reduced to line-ups largely composed
of substitutes by that time, for the game had been a hard-fought and
not over gentle affair. Although they were but Second Teams and no
championship depended on their efforts, they were still Wyndham and
Wolcott, rivals always. Each team played not for its own honor but
for the honor of its School, and mighty deeds were performed before
the question of supremacy was settled. At 7 to 7 the battle had waged
into the third period and through it, and at 7 to 7 the last quarter
had started. Then, when some three minutes had gone by, Wolcott’s
brown-stockinged horde swept into its stride and, strengthened by the
return of several first-string men who had been deposed in the first
half, slammed its way down to the home team’s twenty-five-yard line.
There the ball was lost only to be recovered again. From the thirty-two
Wolcott started once more and tore forward. “Babe” Ridgway, who had
stuck it out under a grueling attack through three busy periods, had to
give way finally to Pat Tyson, and Pat was responsible for an advance
that took Wolcott from the twenty-eight to the sixteen yards. Wyndham
steadied then and held, momentarily, but when the enemy had reached the
ten yards it was not to be denied, and at last, when two smashes at
the center had netted but three, the Wolcott right half took the ball
on a cross-buck and plunged inside Jimmy Ames for a first down. Three
more plays put the pigskin across.
The period was fully half over and those six points looked enough to
spell victory for the visitor, but the Fighting Scrub couldn’t spell
that way. Scrub set itself to dispute the try-for-point, and when Al
Greene strode over the sprawling body of his adversary and plunged
toward the kicker that youth hurried his effort. The ball didn’t miss
the goal by many inches, but miss it did, and the Fighting Scrub gave
voice to joy and stumbled back to positions. Mr. Connover shuffled his
men then. Tyson crossed over to right tackle and “Wink” Coles went
to center. Hoppin replaced Thayer and Patch took Clif’s place. And
with that final change “Steve” shot his last bolt. He hadn’t a single
available player left to call on! But Wolcott didn’t know that.
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