When the teams faced each other again on Clearfield’s thirty yards
substitutes were much in evidence. Jones was in place of Grover,
Arthur Beaton for Haley, Tupper for Hansard and Kirke for Cottrell,
and Felker was back at full. Highland Hall, too, had run new men on.
Clearfield started rushing again and was soon past the center of the
field. Kirke, the substitute quarter, got his signals mixed then and
there was a ten-yard loss, and Clearfield kicked. Highland caught the
ball on her twenty-five-yard line and came back twelve, the Purple’s
ends showing up poorly. In the next scrimmage Beaton, Clearfield’s
substitute center, received a blow on the head and retired in favor of
Pete Robey. Pete had been trying for guard position and the duties of
center rush were none too familiar to him, and, in spite of Lanny’s
coaching, he was very weak on defense. Twice Highland made big gains
through him before the secondary defense came to his assistance. Near
the middle of the field Highland was forced to punt and Tupper fumbled
on his twelve yards, recovered, tried to advance by a run across the
field and was finally stopped for no gain. A fake-kick play with Felker
taking the ball for a try around left end resulted in a loss and Felker
kicked on second down. Highland signaled fair-catch and held the ball
on Clearfield’s thirty-seven yards. A forward pass went diagonally to
the right end and that youth plunged through half the Clearfield team
before he was forced out near the twenty-yard line. The blue-coated
adherents of the visiting team cheered lustily and implored a touchdown.
A wide end run gained a scant three yards and took the ball well over
to the Clearfield side of the gridiron. Another forward pass was tried
but was incompleted, and, with seven to go on third down, the Highland
right tackle fell out of the line and walked back to about the thirty
yards, while the quarterback knelt in front of him and patted the turf.
“I hope he makes a goal,” declared Louise Brent, in the grandstand.
“He won’t this time,” answered Dick, as Highland arranged her men to
protect the kicker. Louise looked a question. “Highland has two downs
yet,” he continued, “and that angle is almost impossible for anyone but
a Brickley. They’ve made our fellows spread out and open their line and
they’ll either snap the ball to that fellow who pretends he is going
to place-kick and he will try a forward or the ball will go to one of
those backs for a run straight through the middle. At least, that’s the
way I size it up. We’ll see now.”
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