The play, however, proved to be a forward pass to Roberts.
Roberts was out of position and the pigskin was intercepted by the Claflin quarter.

It was then the Blue's ball on her forty-five yards.
Hall let the runner through for a yard and Claflin pulled off a successful forward pass to her left end on Brimfield's thirty-nine-yard line.

The Blue's full-back was stopped in an attempt on the opposite right tackle and a penalty for off-side brought the ball to near the middle of the field.

Claflin then punted to Brimfield's seven yards and the whistle sounded the end of the first quarter.
The stand cheered while the players traversed the field to line up under the shadow of the west goal.
Brimfield thrust Norton at the Claflin centre when the play began again and the big full-back made three yards.

Then he dropped behind his goal-line and punted, the ball going out of bounds at the twenty-four yards.