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yard line. The question then was whether we 

 would hold them for downs. Well, on the next 

 line-up Heenan tried a tremendous upper cut, 

 which I dodged, and the force of his blow turned 

 him a complete back summerset, and while he 

 was in the air I dove underneath him, got the 

 ball from their quarter-back before he could pass 

 it to the backs, and when the crowd overtook me 

 I was lying between the Andover goal-posts with 

 the ball safely over the line. 



"When the goal was kicked and the sides 

 separated, Heenan was found still turning sum- 

 mersets like an animated pin-wheel, not having 

 been able to stop, and time was called until he 

 could be stopped and recover from his giddiness. 



" This, of course, caused a good deal of cheer- 

 ing for me, and gave us a decided lead over An- 

 dover. So far nobody had been killed, and only 

 a few crippled for life, and the first half closed 

 with Exeter leading Andover by the score of twelve 

 to nothing. 



"In the fifteen minutes' rest between halves, 

 the Mayor and Common Council waited on me 

 in Dr. Soule's parlor, and informed me that the 

 Board of Trade and the Faculty and the Deacon 

 of the United Churches were going to give me 

 a banquet at the Squamscott after the game, 

 provided we won and prevented Andover from 

 scoring. 



