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The Half-Back

CHAPTER VI
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Then there was a delay, for the right half when he tried to arise found that his ankle was strained, and so had to limp off the ground supported by Greer and Barnard, the one-hundred-and-sixty-pound right tackle.

Turner, a new player, went on, and the ball was put in play again, this time for a try through left tackle.

But the second's line held like a stone wall, and the runner was forced back with the loss of a yard.

Then the first eleven guards fell back, and when the formation hit the second's line the latter broke like paper, and the first streamed through for a dozen yards.

And so it went until the second found itself only a few yards from its goal line.
There, with the backs pressed close against the forwards, the second held and secured the ball on downs, only to lose it again by a fumble on the part of Post.


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