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On the next down, Patrochlus grabs the bull from
Hector, and breaks away from lliu scrimmage. He
makes a brilliant run clear down the field, and proudly
plants the ball down behind the goal posts. It was a
brilliant play, but Zeus claims he stole the ball, and the
fluke don't work, so the ball is brought back and given
to the Trojans.
They return to the game much discouraged and dis
heartened, only to see 1 lector make a scries of brilliant
rushes, bringing the ball to their ten yard line. They
are unable to hold them. Their line gives away every
time before the terrible rushes of Hector. What they
thought was an impregnable wall, is easily punctured
by their daring enemies. Amid a roar of wild huzxahs,
Ilector is finally pushed over the line for a touch-down,
but the ball went over the corner of the field, and
Aeneas failed to kick goal. When the men arose from
the final down, Patrochlus was found to be injured, and
was carried off the field on a stretcher. It was just
thirty seconds before time was called so nothing further
was done, and the first half ends score, Troy , Greece o.
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Of course there was
wild rejoicing among
the Trojans. Their ad
herents whooped and
hollowed like fiends.
I lector was carried on
iSWyl, W'-v admirers, clear around
the field. His father, who was watching the game
from an elevated position on the fence, leaped down,
and pushing through the crowd, grasped the hand of
his victorious son.
Hut the Greeks withdrew to a corner of the field,
sorely troubled. Indeed they were beginning to wear
a wearied look. It was plain to be seen that Zeus was
favoring their opponents, but this could not be helped.
The injuries Patrochlus received were very severe and
he could not enter the game again. Hut just as the
referee was about to call time, Achilles was seen,
scampering toward them attired in a bran new sweater.
A great shout arose at his appearance, and as he lined
up in the place just vacated by Patrochlus, the team's
confidence came back and they went into the game
with a vim and vigor that meant defeat for the Trojans.
Paris could not stand watching the game from a dis
tance, and although his shoulder was in a very bad con
dition, he insisted on playing the second half, against
the advice of his best girl, Helen D , who tried topur
suadc him from playing.
The second half is started by Mcnclaus kicking off
for forty yards. Hector catches it, and with good in-
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terference brings the ball nearly to the center. Hut
here I hoy are held for three downs without a gain, and
the ball is thrown back to Paris who punts for forty
yards, Odysseus catches the ball but is downed in his
tracks.
Then here commences some of the finest bucking
that was ever witnessed on Ilium field. The ball is
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passed to Achilles who goes through the line for again
of ten yards. This play is repeated. The Greeks re-
roportion that they train
ks the ball is gradually
les makes a beautiful end
gain confidence in the same
ground. Hy successive bucl
worked down the held. Achil
run for fifteen yards, carrying the ball to the Trojan's
twenty-five yard line. He is downed by Hector, who
tackles him so hard that both fall with terrible force.
Hector was unable to rise when the referee's whistle
blew. He had been knocked senseless, besides having
three ribs broken. As he is taken from the field and
a substitute put in his place, all the confidence of the
Trojans seems to go with him. When they line up for
the next play Achilles takes the ball. Easily shaking
off Aeneas, he tears past the full back, and before the
astonished Trojans were aware of what happened, he
had the ball squarely behind the goal posts; time
thirty-three minutes. Odysseus kicks an easy goal.
The confusion and yelling that this occasioned is diffi
cult to describe. It was all the linesmen and referee
could do to clear the field for playing the remainder
of the game. There was only two minutes left how
ever, but in that time the Greeks carried the ball clear
down to the five yard line, and another touch-down
would probably have been scored if time had not been
called.
Hut thus the game ended, and amid glorious shouts
of triumph the victors were borne from the field. Then
Hcdlam was let loose, and until the ships left at 1 1 130
for home the fields about Troy were ablaze with bon
fires, the material for which had been "swiped" from
the fences of the defeated Trojans. 1 T. R.
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