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', THE HESPERIAN 1 ing pretty well, but it wasn't quite good enough, and Yont started on one of his vig orous runs around the loft end. This placed three more whito linos behind the University team. It was at this point that it becamo paint fully, apparent that Nebraska had twelve men to play against. The twelfth man (Umpire Toomoy), had stuffed his overcoat pocket full of .foul-tacklo docisionB, each, one war ranted to bo good for five yards or Baker to tako the ball. One of these was now sprung on the boys. It astonished Flip pin so much that he dislocated Iuh thumb, and it was sixty-two seconds before Yont re covered sufficiently to get his mouth shut. No one believes that Hopewell tried to throt tle Pendloton, but the decisions of an um pire are as binding as the law of the Medes and the Persians, and Baker got the ball. After bandaging Flippin's thumb the gamo began again. By a series of good plays the Methodist boys carried the ball back twenty-five yards towards the center of the grounds. In the next play there was some misun derstanding of signals, and as no one took the ball the quarter back started out on his own hook. This was clearly a violation of the rule that roads, "The man who first re ceives the ball when snapped back from a down, shall not carry the ball for ward under any circumstances whatever." Either the umpire had forgotton to road up on the rules, or else he had special rules of his own for the occasion. Ho would not al low the foul. Twice more Holler wont at the line liko a battering ram, and we fell to wondering if his head, at least, -were not that of a hard-shell Baptist instead of merely a fighting Methodist. The way ho drops his head and jumps into the lino would give pointers to a four -year-old Merino. Flip pin's thumb was injured again in tho last set to, and time, was asked for to adjust the bandage. ' ' No one knows just how it happened, but in the next play Heller slippod around tho loft ond and made a fino run of sixty-yards, scoring a touch down. Lincoln crowds know good foot ball whon thoy see it, and this brilliant play was given an ovation ovon if it was against our side. Thomas kicked an oasy goal, but ho did it very prettily. Scoro 0 to 0 in favor of Baker. Nebraska started the" ball from contor with a flying wedge. It split off twelve yards of Baker's fifty-five. Then Flippin helped himself to twenty-three more, and tho scarlet and cream contingent howled their approval. Tho ball was only twenty yards from Baker's goal. But the next play was a fumble and ono of tho foreigners dropped on tho ball. It was hard luck for tho scar lot and cream, but it saved the umpire tho bother of pulling out another of his ready made foul-tacklo decisions. In nine at tempts by Heller, Mottor, and Thomas the ball advanced twonty-oight yards. Then Thomas tried to find a hole between Wilson and Oury, but ho found it not. Holler next tried to persuade Whipple and Dern to let him pass, but 'they declined with thanks. Heller concludod to try left ond, but Shue objected and rolled him over four and a half yards from where ho started. Tho refereo refused to split yards and called it fivo, thus allowing Baker to koop the ball. After a few indifferent plays tho ball was lost on a fumble, and it merrily started to roll clear down to Baker's goal. There was no fool ing this time. Tho pig-skin, like the obsti nate animal whoso back it once adorned, had determined to see what tho prohibition fol lows had back of their goal posts. The tune that it marched to was U U ITni., audits rate of speed was as follows: 5-10-2-8-2 and 5 yards. Tnis was too slow for Yont and he picked it up by tho oars and set it fifteen yards ahead around the loft end. This brought the ba.ll within twelve yards of the goal, and every mother's son of a Bug eater was howling and jumping and gesticu lating after the most approved fashion. Flippin was sent into the lino six times in 31 1 -a 9 i "4 4 4 vsl k fll Jtf