yards was his best performance. On defense Woodby was almost equally
strong, and had Erskine not outweighted her in the line some five pounds
per man, would have forced her to kick every time. As it was, the
purple-clad backs made but small and infrequent gains through the line,
and very shortly found that runs outside of tackle or end were her best
cards, even though, as was several times the case, her runners were
nailed back of her line for losses.

Team play was as yet utterly lacking in the Erskine eleven, and though
the men were as a rule individually brilliant or decidedly promising,
Woodby had far the best of it there. Fumbles were many on both sides,
but Erskine's were the most costly. Stone's fumble of a free kick soon
after the second half began gave Woodby her second touch-down, from
which, luckily, she failed to kick goal. The veterans on the team,
Tucker at left tackle, Graham at center, Cowan at right-guard, Foster at
quarter, and Devoe at right end, played well with the glaring exception
of Cowan, whose work in the second half especially was so slipshod that
Mills, with wrath in his eye, took him out and put in Bell, a second
eleven man.

With the score 11 to 6 against her, Erskine braced up and fought
doggedly to score. Neil proved the best ground-gainer, and made several
five-and ten-yard runs around right end. Once, with the ball on Woodby's
twelve yards and the audience shouting vehemently for a touch-down,
Foster called on Paul for a plunge through right tackle. Paul made two
yards, but in some manner lost the ball, a fumble that put Erskine back
on her fifty-yard line and that sent her hopes of tying the score
down to zero.

The second half was to be but fifteen minutes long, and fully ten of the