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His effort was not very successful, and the ball was Robinson's on her twenty-seven yards. Now she tried the tackle-tandem on the other side of center, hurling right tackle, followed by left half with the ball, and full-back at the guard-tackle hole. Paul led the defense this time, and again Robinson was brought up all standing.
Once more the tackle-tandem was brought into play. Smith failed to stop it, and the head of the defense was given to Pearse; but Robinson's new left tackle was a good man, and yard by yard Erskine was borne back toward her goal. The south stand blossomed anew with brown silk and bunting. On her thirty yards Erskine was penalized for off-side and the ball was almost under her goal.
Neil dropped back and the pigskin settled into his ready hands. When it next touched earth it was in Robinson's possession on her own fifty yards. That punt brought a burst of applause from the north seats. Robinson tried tackle-tandem again and Neil and Pearse stopped it short.
For the "antidote," as they had come to call it, had been tried and had vindicated its inventor's faith in it. Every afternoon the second team hammered the varsity line with the tackle-tandem, and almost every time the varsity stopped it and piled it up in confusion.
In other words, we get through on to them before they can get under way. Our quarter and right half follow up, and, unless I'm away off on my calculations, that tackle-tandem is going to stop on its own side of the line." Sydney paused and awaited Mills's opinion. The latter was silent a moment. Then "Of course," he said, "you've thought of what's going to happen to that left half?"
He placed his own chair beside Sydney's and handed the diagram to him. "Now just go over this, will you; tell me just what your idea is." Sydney, still excited over the night's happenings, drew a ready pencil from his pocket, and began rather breathlessly: "I've placed the Robinson players in the positions that our second team occupies for the tackle-tandem.
Anyhow, let's work like thunder, fellows, and, if we can't do any more, tear that confounded tackle-tandem up and send it home in pieces. We've got thirty-five minutes left in which to show that we're as good if not better than Robinson. Any fellow that thinks he's not as good as the man he's going to line up against had better stay out.
And don't hesitate to come and see me if you find yourself in a quandary or whenever you've got anything to show." And Sydney trundled himself back to his room and sat up until after midnight puzzling his brains over the tackle-tandem play, finally deciding that a better understanding of the play was necessary before he could hope to discover its remedy.
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