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killed his advance before it had hardly started. But time out was called. Woolsey and Velie, two of Tate's cripples of the past two weeks' were both hurt. Woolsey so badly that he had to be removed from the game.

"What have those bozos got?—brass knuckles and two-inch spikes? Or have I put a lot of glass men out there, hey?" complained Cavendish as he sent in a substitute for Woolsey.

Union State was stopped only temporarily* On the next play Tobey made it first down around Velie's end. It was easy to be seen that the Tate end was not himself. He was limping badly and seemingly in pain. His old injury had returned to plague him. With Tobey running wild, Cavendish could not afford to take chances. He called Velie out of the game.

The Union State procession continued straight toward the Tate goal line. Short jabs at the line, each time with a small gain. Five- and ten-yard runs around end by the slippery Tobey. The visitors' heavy linemen were simply too bulky for the lighter Tatians. Moreover, Union State was playing as roughly as the law allowed and, when they could get away with it, rougher. The referee warned them about piling on when the ball was down, about illegal use of knees, about