or Erskine
to test her offensive powers. On the first play, using the
close-formation, Gillam slashed a hole between the opposing center and
right-guard and Mason went through for two yards. The next play netted
them another yard in the same place. Then Paul was given the pigskin for
a try outside of right tackle and reeled off four yards more before he
was downed. It was quick starting and fast running, and for the moment
Robinson was taken off her feet; but the next try ended dismally, for in
an attempt to get through the left of the line between guard and tackle
Mason was caught and thrown back for a two-yard loss. Another try
outside of tackle on that side of the line netted but a bare three feet,
and Foster dropped back for a kick. His effort was not very successful,
and the ball was Robinson's on her twenty-seven yards.

Now she tried the tackle-tandem on the other side of center, hurling
right tackle, followed by left half with the ball, and full-back at the
guard-tackle hole. Paul led the defense this time, and again Robinson
was brought up all standing. Another try at the same point with like
results, and Robinson changed her tactics. With the tandem formation,
the ball went to full-back, and with left end and tackle interfering he
skirted Erskine's right for seven yards and brought the wearers of the
brown to their feet shouting wildly. Perhaps no one was more surprised
than Bob Devoe, for it was his end that had been circled. Certainly no
one was more thoroughly disgusted than he. The Robinson left end had put
him out of the play as neatly as though he had been the veriest tyro.
Devoe sized up that youth, set his lips together, and kept his
eyes open.

Robinson now had the ball near her thirty-five yards and returned to the
tackle-tandem. In two plays she gained two yards, the result of faster
playing. Then another try outside of right tackle brought her five
yards. Tackle-tandem again, one yard; again, two yards; a try outside of
tackle, one yard; Erskine's ball on Robinson's forty-three yards. The
pigskin went to Gillam, who got safely away outside Robinson's right end
and reeled off ten yards before he was caught. Again he was given the
ball for a plunge through right tackle and barely gained a yard. Mason
found another yard between left-guard and tackle and Foster kicked. It
was poorly done, and the leather went into touch at the twenty-five
yards, and once more Robinson set her feet toward the Erskine g