It was successfully captured, but the distance was short and the pigskin went to Brimfield on her thirty-eight yards.
Still gained two at left tackle and the half ended with the pigskin on Claflin's thirty-eight yards, the score 0 to 0.
After that, with the ball on the second's eight yards, the 'varsity should have scored easily.
Norton punted poorly, the ball going diagonally across the gridiron, and it was Claflin's first down on Brimfield's twenty-eight yards.
At the distance of two miles and a half from the last stone wall, is a stream on the north side, twenty-eight yards in width, and with some running water.
Morgan's had secured the ball by fair catch on her own thirty-eight yards after a poor attempt at a punt by Harris, and now she was turning Brimfield's right flank nicely.
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.
Claflin regularly made from four toeight yards on three plays and then punted.
For Dick made the catch on his twenty-eight yards, and for once the interference was all he could have asked for.
In the first three minutes of the quarter Phillipsburg attempted a hopeless place-kick from the thirty-eight yards, but it landed far short, and after that her desperate forward-passes were always spoiled.
In eight downs Parkinson advanced to the enemy's twenty-eight yards.
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