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down, five yards to gain." Then the Faculty tried the ends, but soon realized our superiority at these points. Dashiell and Barber shattered their inter- ference as though it were a pane of glass, and Gilligan and Martland were found invincible. So the ball went over. Both sides were now playing steadily and hard; but we bluffed the Faculty beautifully by a" fake" kick, and advanced the ball to their twenty-yard line. Then came the tug of war. 'vVe had to fight for every inch, but we made our gains. Slowly but surely we approached the goal-line. But the time was growing short. \Ve were now just half a yard from the last chalk mark "Third down, goal to gain," shouted the referee, while the spectators looked and listened in speechless silence. But the words were scarcely uttered when our wind-jammer yelled "time." "Time," softly croaked the other time-keeper. It was hard, but there was still another half, and a long one, for it was to be a battle royal. It had been agreed to have an intermission of .extra length For twenty minutes Faculty enjoyed the ministrations of their three nurses. For twenty minutes the Seniors recuperated under the kind attention of their fair classmates, for, strange to say, the Faculty had per- mitted our girls to officiate in that capacity. While we rested some startling discoveries were macle. "Billy Mac ,. announced that he had discovered a number of new stars while but said that he didn't wish to see any more, that he would rather heavens alone, with the aid of a tele- scope. "Bel!" bravely agreed to take his place. "Uncle Jimmy" declared that the fray was worse than old Marathon, and that he would rather look on for the rest of the game. "Queen Lil ,. took his place. was rather unsteady as a result from Rolly's rolling on made an able substj tnre. "Bull-dog" had clone a similar ness to Barber's head, but Neff formed an equally troublesome opponent for Black. "Bark" had injured a side and j, Benny" took his place in the line. There was a look of fixed determination upon twenty-two faces as the second half began. Holt kicked off. He put only moderate force into the motion; but there was skill behind it, and a moment later the leather rested in the grand stand. Again he kicked, and this time the ball was caught on the edge of the gridiron and hurried lip the field; but Neff sprinted as though he were running a hundred yards clash and downed "Roger" all the fifteen- yard line. .. These Englishmen fight beautifully," shouted ,j Doc," thinking of Waterloo. "but must give Tackles back" It was a hard push, but the gain was "Guards yelled the Captain. This time they went through our line as though it were paper. The next time we bowed to meet but the superior weight of "Rolly," and" Bull-dog" was too much, again the referee called ., first clown." And so they kept it up, -+18r4-