Evening star., 1935-12-10
INSTALLMENT XVIII.

THE crowd in the Colburn stands
rent the sky with tremendous
shout when Capt. Minton and
his outfit romped along gin
gerly under Stevens staccato COM
mands. Nancy shrieked with uncon-
trolled delight, but caught herself
second later when she noticed that it
wasn't Chuck but some one else who
was leading the team through its
signals.
"Sorrel, Black, Heaton, Minton,
Austin, Blake, Bloomgarten, Stevens,
Hoffmeister, Corbett and Salinger,"
read Mr.. Marshall, as he looked over
the top of his spectacles at the lineup
listed in the program. "Umh! kind
of feel lost this year, not knowing the
merits of the players like I used to.
That's business for you, confound it,
keeping me away from foot ball. Bert
well evidently is doing good job,
Nancy" he said with smile, Judging
by the teams record this Fall. Only
one defeat, you know. Guess we can
stand that. That is, if we win today"
"Oh! I do hope Colburn wins,
father. Don't you think they will?"
"I hope so, Nancy, child, but game
depends on a good many things be-
sides hope"
A half minute before the game Min
ton walked to the center of the field
to shake hands with the Sanford cap
tain and to call the toss of the coin
which would give him the option on
the kickoff Minton lost and Sanford
elected to kickoff.
The teams lined up, and as the
large and agile Sanford leader moved
up to boot the ball great cheer went
up from both stands and shattered
itself into echoes directly over the
field. The ball rose in the air, turning
end over end, and travelling swift and
far. Stevens, standing on his own
f1ye-yard line, caught it in his arms
and sped straight up the center. For
~ yards he went unhindered Then
three Sanford players met him at the
same time and he stopped with
thud. He bounded up and called the
team into action.
A line buck with Hoffmeister carry
ing the ball failed to gain an inch
against the strong Sanford forward
wall Stevens Immediately called for
q kick formation with Corbett back,
and the latter lifted high and well
placed spiral to Sanford's 40-yard line.
On the very first play Sanford
called kick formation and, to
the amazement of the players and
the stands, the player in the kicker's
position tossed a fast pass out to
the wing and the man who caught
It raced 20 yards for a first down
on Colburn's 40-yard line.
Once again Sanford went into kick
formation. The ball was snapped to
the ful1back, who plunged directly
at Blake. The big Southwesterner
charged with terrific force and knocked
the Sanford guard back onto the ball
carrier and both went down in a
heap without any yardage gained.
The next play saw the Sanford
pilot carry the ball off the other
Colburn tackle, on sneak play for
q short gain of 4 yards. Sanford
then kicked and Stevens caught the
ball on his own 11-yard line.
After one play, which netted Q yards,
Stevens called on Corbett to kick
again. 1t was the only thing to do.
He was obeying the chart to the letter.
Sanford caught the punt on the
Colburn 38-yard line.
"See what they're playing for" re-
marked Bertwell to Chuck, on the
bench beside him. They're exchang-
ing kicks with us and gaining plenty
on each one. That'll get them in
scoring position without using up
their energy, then they'll go at full
force when they want to score. Gosh,