A cloud of grief and foreboding settles down upon the 'Varsity team,
for Pepper is not only a great favourite with them, but as a full
back they have learned to depend upon him. Huntingdon is full of
regrets, and at once offers Campbell and the referee to forego the
touchdown, and to scrimmage at the point of tackle.

"He would have held me, I know, bar the accident," he says.

The referee is willing, but Campbell will not hear of it.

"Put off a man," he says shortly, "and go on with the game."

Bate is moved from half to full, a man is taken from the scrimmage
to supply his place, McGill makes a similar shift, and the game
proceeds.

Huntingdon fails to convert the touchdown into a goal. Bate kicks
back into touch, and with desperate determination 'Varsity goes in
to even the score.

Campbell resolves now to abandon the close game. He has everything
to win, and to lose by four points is as much a loss as by a dozen.

"Play to your halves every time," he orders the quarters, and no
sooner is play begun than the wisdom of the plan is seen. With a
brilliant series of passes the 'Varsity quarters and halves work the
ball through the McGill twenty-five line, and by following hard a
high punt, force the enemy to a safety touch. No sooner has the
McGill captain kicked off than the ball is returned and again McGill
is forced to rouge.