He let Ripley get two or three feet in the lead.

At Ripley, therefore, the second's interference hurled itself savagely.

It was all done so quickly that the beguiled second had no time to rectify its blunder; for Fred Ripley was in the center of the squirming, interfering bunch and Dick Prescott had made a fair, firm, abrupt tackle.

In an instant the ball was "down." Second had gained less than a yard.
"Good work!" the coach shouted, after sounding the whistle." Ripley and Prescott, that was the right sort of team work." Again second essayed to get away with the ball.

This time the forward pass was employed---that is to say, attempted.