r and reached the eighteen before Carmine tipped up the
runner. Across the gridiron, Benton's supporters yelled mightily and a
second touchdown looked imminent.

Benton fumbled and recovered for a two-yard loss and then sent that
heroic quarter up the field to try a drop kick. It looked easy enough,
for the ball was near the twenty-eight yards and in front of the right
hand goal post. Captain Edwards implored his men to block the kick and
comparative quiet fell over the field. Back shot the ball and the
quarter's foot swung at it, but the left side of the Benton line
crumbled and Hall and Crewe flung themselves into the path of the ball.
Four seconds later it was snuggled under Tim Otis's chest near the
thirty-five yards, for Tim had followed the forwards through and
trailed the bouncing pigskin up the field.

That misadventure seemed to take the heart out of the visitors, and when
Brimfield, with new courage and determination, smashed at her line she
fell back time and again. Substitutes were sent in lavishly, but
although the right side of the Benton line stiffened for awhile, the
left continued weak. Coach Robey sent in Compton to replace Steve
Edwards and, later, Howard for St. Clair. With the best part of five
minutes left, Brimfield hoped to put over a winning touchdown, and the
backs responded gallantly to Carmine's demands. Near the enemy's
forty-yard line Rollins threw a neat forward to Holt and the latter
raced along the side of the field for a dozen yards before he was forced
over the line. That took the ball to Benton's twenty-one. Two tries at
the line netted but six yards and Compton took the pigskin on an
end-around play and just made the distance.

Brimfield hammered the enemy's left wing and reached her five-yard line
in three downs, but Benton, fiercely determined, her feet on the last
line mark, was putting up a strong defence. Tom Hall, captain pro tem.,
and Carmine consulted. A forward pass might succeed, and if it did would
win the game, but Benton would be watching for it and neither Holt nor
Compton was a brilliant catcher of thrown balls. A goal from the field
would only tie the score, but it seemed the wisest play. So Rollins
dropped back to the twenty and stretched his arms. But Benton was sure a
forward was to result and when the ball went back her attempts to block
the kick were not very enthusiastic. That was fortunate for Brimfield,
for Thursby's pass had been short and Rollins had to pi