Cobber's big fellows worried the ball back for eleven yards.

Then the visitors, who carried thirty per cent.

more weight, began with heavy mass plays.

Gridley began to go down, to double up and collapse before that heavy, rough play, in which fatigue, not speed was the object of the opponents.
It was not scientific play, but it was grueling on the High School boys.

Even confident Dick Prescott's heart began to sink.