11--Brimfield 9; Chambers 30 Nov.

18--Brimfield 39; Southby 7 Brimfield had played nine games, of which she had won six, lost two and tied one, not a bad record, as the _Review_ rather complacently pointed out, for a school whose football history dated back but a few years.

But Brimfield didn't waste much time contemplating past performances.

Had the team won every game in its schedule by an overwhelming score, the season would still be a dismal failure if it lost to Claflin, just as, if it finally won its big game, the school would rise up and call it blessed even had it lost every other contest of the season.

In other words, Claflin was the only foe that really counted, and the Claflin game was the final test by which the Brimfield Football Team stood or fell.
Claflin School, at Westplains, New York, some twelve miles distant from Brimfield, was a larger school in point of enrolment, a very much older school and far more "select." I don't intend to imply by that term that the Claflin students were a finer set of fellows than those at Brimfield.