Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction; Football stories; School sports -- Juvenile fiction; Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
The playing was fairly ragged on both sides, and the game lacked
interest. The day was much too warm for football, and the home team and
the visitors alike suffered. The Dark Blue held to a tackle-to-tackle
offense, and only twice offered anything in the way of aerial attack.
Then two short passes over the end of the line were tried with negative
results. Most of Wyndham’s gains were made between the opposing guards
and tackles. Once or twice the Freeburg center was battered down,
but the youth who occupied the pivotal position for the visitors was
extremely capable and turned back most of the plays directed against
him. The Dark Blue put over one touchdown in the first period, and hung
up seven points. In the next quarter a second touchdown was added, but
Stoddard missed the try-at-goal. Freeburg forced the fighting after
half-time, and produced the only thrilling incident of the performance
when her quarter got loose with the ball near his own forty-yard line,
and ran to Wyndham’s seven. There he was pulled down by Ogden, playing
right half for Jensen, and the exultant shouts of the Freeburg rooters
were cut short. But they broke forth again some two minutes later when,
following two unsuccessful tries at the Dark Blue line, a fleet-footed
substitute was shot into the visitor’s line-up, and took the pigskin
on a wide run around his left end, placing it a scant twelve inches
from the goal line. With one down remaining, Freeburg concentrated
on Quinlan, at left guard, and smashed through for a score. A minute
afterwards she turned the 6 into a 7. Just before that third period
ended the Dark Blue hammered her way across the enemy goal-line for a
third touchdown from which, again, no goal resulted. The final quarter
witnessed the introduction of practically two fresh teams but produced
no scoring. Wyndham chalked up a 19 to 7 victory to start the season’s
schedule.
Talking the game over that evening, Clif and Tom arrived almost
simultaneously at the same conclusion, which, as Tom put it, was this:
“You and I, old son, have about as much chance to make the team this
year as I have to win the Condon Prize for English! Why, heck, no one
knows we’re on the squad! That coach doesn’t even see us.”
“You’re right, I guess,” Clif agreed sadly. “That bunch is too big and
too heavy for us to associate with. What we’d better do is quit and put
in our time beefing up.”
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