Left Tackle Thayer

CHAPTER XXV

VIC­TO­RY!

That oblique kick-​off had been pre­ar­ranged and by the time the Claflin right guard had called it his the Ma­roon-​and Grey for­wards were down on him. His fran­tic at­tempt to gath­er the ball in­to his arms failed and it bound­ed away to­ward the side line. Blais­dell fell on it a foot from the mark and Brim­field shout­ed joy­ful­ly. From Claflin's thir­ty-​six yards to her twen­ty the Brim­field backs car­ried the pigskin. There Roberts was caught hold­ing and the Ma­roon-​and-​Grey was set back. Har­ris fell back as if to kick and threw for­ward to Roberts on Claflin's twelve. Roberts caught, but was stopped for no more gain. The Brim­field stand cheered hoarse­ly and un­ceas­ing­ly, the cheer­lead­ers nev­er let­ting up for a mo­ment. Har­ris plugged the Claflin cen­tre for two, St. Clair got three around left tack­le and Har­ris made it first down on the Blue's two yards di­rect­ly in front of goal by a criss-​cross play through right guard. Brim­field went crazy then and cries of “Touch­down! Touch­down! Touch­down!” thun­dered across from the stand.

Carmine and Cap­tain Innes con­ferred. St. Clair was cho­sen to try the right tack­le. But there was no hole there and he lost a yard. Har­ris banged out less than two feet at right guard. St. Clair again tried right tack­le and got through for one. Har­ris fell back to kick. The stands qui­et­ed. Innes passed low and Har­ris took too much time. The ball bound­ed away from an up­stretched hand and Carmine fell on it at the twen­ty-​two yards.

Once more Brim­field took up the jour­ney. A for­ward-​pass to Ed­wards went short and Clint knocked it out of the ea­ger hands of a Claflin play­er. Two at­tempts by Kendall ad­vanced the ball but four yards and Har­ris again went back to kick­ing po­si­tion. He was on the twen­ty-​six yards and just to the left of the goal and Brim­field ful­ly ex­pect­ed a score. But when the ball went to him he tucked it un­der his arm and shot to the left in an ef­fort to skirt the end. The at­tempt just failed to gain the dis­tance and the ball went to Claflin on downs. The ma­roon-​and-​grey flags that a mo­ment be­fore had been wav­ing ri­otous­ly now wilt­ed de­ject­ed­ly.

Claflin failed to gain on two downs and punt­ed short to mid­field, where Carmine caught and elud­ed half the en­emy be­fore he was forced over the side line for a gain of eight yards. The ball was paced in at Claflin's forty-​six and Kendall, from kick for­ma­tion, got nine out­side right tack­le, Clint open­ing the hole. Har­ris made it first down. A for­ward-​pass, Carmine to Ed­wards, ground­ed. Carmine took the ball for four through cen­tre, St. Clair failed to gain and Har­ris punt­ed to the Blue's five-​yard line. Went­worth made a fair-​catch and punt­ed on sec­ond down, af­ter a plunge at right tack­le had net­ted two yards. Kendall caught and was stopped for no gain.

The ball was on Claflin's forty-​six yards. Har­ris, on a de­layed pass play, made three out­side left tack­le and Kendall got away for sev­en and first down. Kendall again got free around the left of the Blue's line and reeled off six more be­fore he was tack­led. He was hurt and Freer took his place. The lat­ter at once dis­tin­guished him­self by break­ing straight through the Claflin left guard for five yards, and it was first down again on the Blue's twen­ty-​five.

It seemed now that noth­ing was go­ing to stop the Brim­field ma­chine short of the goal line, for the of­fence it was show­ing was far su­pe­ri­or to any­thing ex­hib­it­ed that af­ter­noon by ei­ther team. Claflin was prov­ing weak­er at the ends of her line than ex­pect­ed and her tack­les were show­ing the strain. The end of the pe­ri­od sound­ed af­ter Freer had been stopped for a yard.

Claflin put in a new right guard and a fresh right tack­le and re­turned two of her for­mer men to the line. Coach Robey sent Hall back, but made no oth­er change. The teams doffed blan­kets once more and again faced each oth­er on the Blue's twen­ty-​four yards.

Claflin hoped for noth­ing bet­ter, per­haps, than a no-​score re­sult, for her at­tack had sev­er­al times failed to get un­der way and her op­po­nent seemed to be gain­ing strength rather than los­ing it. Carmine, act­ing un­der in­struc­tions from Coach Robey, now opened up his bag of tricks. A long side-​pass to Ed­wards, fol­lowed by a for­ward heave to Roberts, across the field, brought the Ma­roon-​and-​Grey sup­port­ers leap­ing to their feet, for Roberts caught the long pass high in the air, dodged a fran­tic Claflin end and raced straight to­ward the goal line. On­ly the fact that he slipped near the ten-​yard line pre­vent­ed a score then and there. That in­stant's fal­ter brought the en­emy down on him and, al­though he man­aged to squirm for­ward an­oth­er yard, he was stopped. But it looked a short dis­tance from the nine yards to the fi­nal white line, and Brim­field im­plored a touch­down.

Har­ris was hurled against the des­per­ate blue line and made a scant two yards, and was found thresh­ing his arms about when the play­ers were torn apart. Time was tak­en out and, af­ter the full-​back had been ad­min­is­tered to, he was sup­port­ed to the bench and the ea­ger Rollins can­tered on. Again came a be­wil­der­ing trick-​play, with a de­layed pass from Innes to Freer and a straight dash at the line by St. Clair af­ter a short lat­er­al pass. But, al­though Claflin's for­wards fal­tered, the sec­ondary de­fence came to the res­cue and St. Clair gained on­ly two yards. It was third down now, with five to go, and from both sides of the grid­iron came the im­plor­ing shout of the ri­val “root­ers.” Brim­field chant­ed “Touch­down! Touch­down!” and Claflin hoarse­ly begged her war­riors to “Hold 'em, Claflin! Hold 'em, Claflin!”

And Claflin held them!

With Har­ris out of the line-​up, Carmine hes­itat­ed to try a field-​goal, and when, af­ter an­oth­er yard and a half had been gained by Freer, the goal line was still al­most four yards away, he risked all on a for­ward-​pass. Ed­wards man­aged to sneak in­to po­si­tion be­yond the goal line, but Carmine's toss went wide and Claflin fell on the ball back of the post. Blue flags waved wild­ly then, while, across the dim­ming field, the Brim­field stand was silent and dis­ap­point­ed.

Six min­utes still re­mained of that fi­nal quar­ter, how­ev­er, and the Ma­roon-​and-​Grey took courage again. When the teams lined up once more Still was at left half, Trow at right tack­le and Thurs­by had tak­en Jack Innes's place. Claflin played des­per­ate­ly then and, al­most be­fore Brim­field re­alised it, had reached the mid­dle of the field. Trow was weak and sev­er­al gains were made past him. Thurs­by, too, had not found his pace. Claflin suc­ceed­ed with a short for­ward-​pass and twice made five-​and six-​yard gains around the Brim­field right end. But at the fifty-​yard line the Blue's Ad­vance was halt­ed and Claflin was forced to punt. The kick was short and high and went out near the Ma­roon-​and-​Grey's thir­ty-​yard line. Carmine hurled Freer at the cen­tre for four, the same play­er slid off left tack­le for three more and Carmine him­self made it first down on a wide end-​run. Once more Brim­field took up its jour­ney to­ward the dis­tant goal line.

Lat­er­al pass­es, for­ward pass­es, de­layed plays, all were used and all gained some­thing, while Freer and Still and Freer again slid past the tack­les, Carmine shot through here and there like a jack rab­bit and the slow­er-​mov­ing Rollins bucked the line for less spec­tac­ular gains. Past the cen­tre of the field rolled the Ma­roon-​and-​Grey, past the forty yards, past the thir­ty. Claflin fought tooth and nail, de­spair­ing­ly, des­per­ate­ly, long­ing for the whis­tle that should an­nounce the end.

Just past the thir­ty-​yard line Brim­field had a set­back and her progress was halt­ed when Gaffer­ty was caught off-​side. It be­came sec­ond down then with fif­teen to go and Rollins trot­ted back up the field and held his arms out. But Claflin wasn't look­ing for a punt on sec­ond down and so was not de­ceived as to her op­po­nent's in­ten­tions. What did de­ceive her, though, was the play that came off. For the ball was snapped to Freer, and Freer, af­ter run­ning across the field, passed back to Carmine and that youth, twist­ing on his heel, dashed straight in­to the con­fu­sion of friend and foe, dodg­ing, feint­ing, twist­ing, and emerged on the oth­er side and raced on for the goal line. But near the twen­ty he was brought low by a Claflin back, and it was third down and a half-​yard to go. Carmine pant­ing­ly de­mand­ed the time. The an­swer was two min­utes.

It was Still who got the nec­es­sary half-​yard, to­geth­er with a yard more for good mea­sure. Claflin halt­ed the game while an in­jured right end was nursed back to an in­ter­est in life, and in that in­ter­im Coach Robey sent in three sub­sti­tutes. Sher­rard went in for Ed­wards, Holt for Roberts, and Saun­ders, limp­ing a lit­tle, took the place of Trow at right tack­le. Clint had his head-​guard ready to hand over when he saw Saun­ders trot on and was more than sur­prised when the for­mer left tack­le passed him by and laid his hand on Trow's arm. Holt ev­ident­ly brought a mes­sage from Coach Robey, for he dragged Carmine back and whis­pered to him. What the in­struc­tions were was soon ap­par­ent, for when the whis­tle shrilled again the Ma­roon-​and-​Grey be­gan a re­lent­less ham­mer­ing of the Blue's left side, hurl­ing her backs at guard and tack­le, and, al­though Claflin sent her backs to the res­cue of the be­lea­guered for­wards, the gains came con­sis­tent­ly and grew longer and longer. The Ma­roon-​and-​Grey, on the eight yards now, was again de­mand­ing sur­ren­der.

Clint, with a swollen mouth and a piece of dirty sur­geon's plas­ter run­ning slant­wise above his right eye, pant­ing for breath, bathed in per­spi­ra­tion, watched his ad­ver­sary as Carmine yelped his sig­nals again. On­ly eight yards to go and four downs to do it in. Clint scent­ed vic­to­ry and his nerves grew tense as he wait­ed. Then he was push­ing and wrench­ing and once more the hole was opened wide and once more Freer, play­ing like a wild­cat, smashed past him. Clint fol­lowed through, met a Claflin back and sent him stag­ger­ing aside. Freer, tack­led but still fight­ing, dragged him­self on and on. And then the un­ex­pect­ed hap­pened.

“_Ball!_”

The shout came fran­ti­cal­ly from some­where and Clint saw the pigskin, squeezed from the half-​back's arms, bound in­to air. A blue-​sleeved arm shot to­ward it, and an­oth­er, but the ball, bounc­ing away from an ea­ger hand, went, turn­ing lazi­ly over and over in its flight, to­ward the side line. Clint turned swift­ly and pur­sued, el­bowed by oth­ers. He shot an arm out to the left and cleared his path. Cries and pound­ing foot­steps came to his ears. Away rolled the ball, spurn­ing the five-​yard line, seem­ing­ly bent on trick­ling out of bounds. A blue-​jer­seyed play­er tried to edge past Clint, but the lat­ter swung in front of him. Then he was on the ball, and up again with it tucked against his stom­ach, and was plung­ing to­ward the goal line, a scant six yards away! A Claflin man dived at him and strove to pin­ion his knees, but with a wrench Clint tore one leg free and stag­gered on an­oth­er stride. Arms clutched him about the shoul­ders and it seemed that he was pulling a ton of weight with him. Then there was a shock, his legs went from un­der him and he top­pled to earth. But as he fell, and as the last breath in his body seemed to leave him for­ev­er, he pushed the ball away from him at arm's length and set his fin­gers about it like so many vis­es! And that was the last he knew.

When he opened his eyes he was be­ing sloshed with wa­ter from a big, smelly sponge, and the train­er's lit­tle green eyes were above his.

“What is it?” he asked dazed­ly.

“It's a touch­down, my boy! A touch­down by a bare two inch­es! And how do you feel?”

Clint smiled as he closed his eyes again for a mo­ment and be­came aware that the sound which had be­fore seemed like the pound­ing of surf on the shore was the steady cheer­ing of Brim­field's sup­port­ers. “I feel--all right,” he an­swered, “and--and for the love of mud take that beast­ly sponge out of my mouth!”

The train­er chuck­led, and at that in­stant the cheer­ing rose to a new height of in­ten­si­ty.

“What's that?” asked Clint, strug­gling to get up.

“Rollins kicked goal,” was the an­swer. “Lie still a minute, boy.”

“Then--then we've won?” ex­claimed Clint, re­al­isa­tion of vic­to­ry pour­ing over him like a wave and set­ting his heart to thump­ing.

“We have; sev­en to noth­ing; and there goes the whis­tle and it's all over for an­oth­er year, thank Heav­en! And now you'd best get on your feet, for they'll be af­ter you in a minute!”

And they were, a score of them, with Amy in the lead, Amy laugh­ing and ju­bi­lant and dev­il-​may-​care! And Clint, protest­ing, still a bit faint and pale, but im­mea­sur­ably hap­py, was lift­ed to will­ing shoul­ders from where, a lit­tle vague­ly, he looked down up­on a sea of fran­ti­cal­ly cheer­ing youths who waved ma­roon-​and-​grey ban­ners and be­haved in the time-​hon­oured cus­tom of the con­queror.

“Gang­way!” shout­ed Amy. “Hold tight, Clint! Here we go, fel­lows! Gang­way!”

Clint's bear­ers broke in­to a sham­bling run, and Clint, clutch­ing tight­ly at Amy's neck, lurched and bobbed dizzi­ly as they hur­ried across the field. For an in­stant he caught a view of the grave­ly pleased coun­te­nance of Pen­ny Durkin. Pen­ny waved and was lost to sight again. Oth­er faces he knew swam past him. Smiles and shouts and wav­ing hands greet­ed him. Oth­er play­ers, caught be­fore es­cape was pos­si­ble, were sway­ing about in front of the stand where Brim­field was form­ing in­to a pro­ces­sion to march in tri­umph about the tram­pled field of bat­tle. Straight for the head of the pa­rade scut­tled Amy and his co­horts. “Gang­way!” bab­bled Amy. “Let us through here!”

“Amy!” re­mon­strat­ed Clint. “Let me down, you crazy In­di­an! I--I'm tired!”

“Let you down!” cried Amy in­cred­ulous­ly. “Not much! You're a bloomin' hero, Clint, and you've got to act the part. You're the chap who knocked the 'laf' out of Claflin! Hold your head up now and look like Napoleon!”

“But, Amy, hon­est--”

“Shut up and don't queer the show! Gang­way! Gang­way for Left Tack­le Thay­er!”

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