[The High School Left End by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookThe High School Left End CHAPTER XVI 1/13
"THE CATTLE CAR FOR YOURS" It was Dave Darrin who kicked the goal.
This ran the score up to six to nothing in Gridley's favor. It was the first scoring in a game that had begun by looking all bad for Gridley. The Tottenville High School boys were bigger than the visitors and fully as speedy. In fact, even now, to impartial observers, it looked as though these six points on the score had been won by what was little better than a fluke. "Gridley can't keep this up," remarked the Tottenville boosters confidently.
"They'll lose their wind and nerve against our fine line before the game is much older." The first half went out with score unchanged.
But Captain Wadleigh did heave a sigh of relief when the time keeper cut in on that first half. "Fellows, look out for the fine points," he warned his fellows, after they had trotted into quarters.
"It'll be craft, not strong rush, that wins for us today, if anything does." "Prescott's here.
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