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Dick bent over, holding the ball for the snapback, while his battle front formed on each side of him. Dave Darrin, quarter-back, raced back a few steps, then halted, looking keenly, swiftly over the field. Phin Drayne drew his breath sharply. Then his heart almost stopped beating as he listened. "Thirty-eight -nine -eleven -four!" sounded Darrin's voice, sharp and clear.
Following the tension there was a snapback; a feeling of languor and disappointment possessed us. Devore slammed down the lid of his desk and departed, cursing the luck as he went.
Again the line-up was made for the snapback. The midshipmen players were now justifiably nervous, though they gave no sign of the fact. Again the signal was given. Holmes received the ball and started. The whole Army line veered to the left. The Navy moved to mass in support of Darrin and Dalzell.
After a minute and a half of play, Gridley had done so much that, just before the next snapback Barnes let his sulky eyes flash about him in a way that was understood. Fordham must rush in, now, and hold the enemy back, no matter at what cost of roughness -if the roughness could be done slyly enough. Then it came, a fierce, frenzied charge.
"Dick's coming up, all right," proudly muttered Darrin to Hudson, while the next snapback was forming. "It's putting nerve into all of us," rejoined Hudson. The pigskin was only fourteen yards from the Filmore goal line when Captain Wadleigh's men had to see the ball go to Filmore. Pike's men, however, failed to make good on downs, so the oval came back into Wadleigh's possession.
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