Look out, School." Next moment the match had begun.
As might have been expected, there was at first a great deal more confusion than play.

Bolsover was utterly unused to doing anything together, and football of all games needs united action.
There was a great deal of scrimmaging, but very few kicks and very few runs.

The ball was half the time invisible, and the other half in touch.

Mr Freshfield had time after time to order a throw-in to be repeated, or rule a kick as "off-side." The more ardent players forgot the duty of protecting their flanks and rear; and the more timid neglected their chances of "piling up" the scrimmages.

The Sixth got in the way of the Sixth, and the School often spoiled the play of the School.
But after a quarter of an hour or so the chaos began to resolve itself, and each side, so to speak, came down to its bearings.