"Maybe you ran too hard," suggested the senator's son.
"No, I've been feeling that way for the past five minutes. I don't know what's the matter with me."
"Do you want to quit?"
"Oh, I'll try to play the half out," answered Henshaw.
With the ball on the thirty-yard line, Oak Hall fought as never before to carry the leather on. It did go down to the twenty-yard line, but only to be lost on a fumble, after which a succession of brilliant rushes and end runs by Rockville brought it within striking distance of Oak Hall's goal line, when a drop kick sent it once more between the posts.
"Will you look at that!"
"A goal from the field! That gives Rockville 10 points!"
The cheering and the general din were tremendous. Oak Hall had nothing to say. Plum and his cronies chuckled to themselves.
"Rockville is rubbing it in, eh?" chuckled Nick Jasniff. "I hope they make it about 50 to 0!"