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The Blue took up her journey again, a short pass, Ogden to Houston,
yielding seven yards and Ogden carrying the ball through the right side
for a first down. Wyndham cheerers were chanting “Touchdown, Wyndham!
Touchdown, Wyndham! Touchdown, Wyndham!” Wolcott asked for time and put
in a fresh left guard. Ogden ran up against a stone wall on the next
play and Jensen was nabbed trying to slide off left tackle, and Captain
Lothrop stepped back to the thirty and held out his hands. When the
ball came he plunged straight ahead and got four through the center.
Tom Kemble reported and Whitemill went off. Tom went back to kick.
Higgs passed badly and the ball reached him on the ground. There was
no time to straighten up and get the kick off, for Wolcott was piling
through on him. So Tom thumped the ball to his stomach and started off
to the right. He dodged one enemy, squirmed free of another, turned
sharply in, twisted and turned and finally went down. He had added
three yards, but three was not enough.
Wolcott decided to punt out of danger on first down and James went back
to the four yards. This time it was the Wolcott center who offended,
and the ball reached the fullback above his head. He caught it, but
both Lothrop and Weldon had broken through and were bearing down on him
on each side. The ball went no farther than Weldon’s upflung arm and
then bounded back. James was down, but a Wolcott halfback won the race
to the ball, picked it up on the bound and sought to circle the goal.
Dave Lothrop brought him down just short of the line and Wyndham had a
safety, two points to flaunt against Wolcott’s three!
Wolcott kicked from the thirty-yard line, and the quarter ended after
Kemble had caught on his own thirty-two and carried the ball to the
thirty-seven.
For the last period Wyndham had the wind against her, but it was now
little more than a strong breeze, and occasionally the big brown flag
above the grandstand fell limply about the staff. More changes were
made by Mr. Babcock. Archer went back at left and Carlson at center.
Raiford took Weldon’s place, Sproule went in at right half and “Swede”
Hanbury relieved Ogden. Wyndham made four changes in her line, sending
back three veterans of the first half, and introduced a fresh quarter.
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