In the second period Marvin began to work the ends, sending St. Clair and Kendall around the wings for short gains.  Once, when Kendall, almost stopped, wriggled himself free and dashed on along the side line, the Brimfield supporters leaped to their feet in the stand with ecstatic visions of a touchdown dancing before their eyes.  But Kendall was forced out on Claflin’s thirty-five yards and the yells of triumph subsided.  From there Harris made it first down through a hole as wide as a door in the centre of the Claflin line, reeling off twelve yards before he was upset.  The Blue’s centre-rush was hurt in that encounter and a substitute took his place.  Marvin tested the new man on the next play, but Kendall was stopped.  A second attempt, with Harris plunging straight ahead from kicking position, produced three yards.  St. Clair slid off left tackle for two more and Harris punted to the Blue’s twelve yards.  A penalty for off-side brought the ball back to the seventeen.  Claflin rounded Edwards for six yards, pounded Clint for two more, was held on the next down and punted to the Maroon-and-Grey’s forty-seven.  There Marvin caught and was toppled in his tracks.  Roberts was hurt in a missed tackle and Coach Robey sent Holt in.

Both teams had slowed up in their playing now, for the pace had been unusually fast.  Claflin was caught holding and the ball went once more into her own territory.  Harris and Kendall hammered the tackles for a first down and St. Clair got off around the right end for seven yards more.  Marvin fumbled and Harris fell on the ball.  Harris punted to a corner of the field and the ball rolled out at the fifteen yards.  Claflin braced then and pushed through for a first down, following it with a long forward-pass that took the pigskin to her forty-three yards.  A fake-kick failed to gain and her full-back was brought up standing when he tried Jack Innes’s position.  A punt was caught by Kendall on his twenty-five-yard line and, behind good interference, he dashed back nearly ten before he was nailed.  St. Clair made three off the Blue’s right tackle and Marvin kicked from position, the ball rolling past the Claflin quarter to his thirty-yard line, where he managed to secure it just an instant before Steve Edwards reached him.  Two tries netted but four yards and a punt followed.  Marvin caught near midfield and the half ended.

The teams had shown themselves to be very evenly matched in all departments of the game.  On offence Brimfield had done a trifle better, if we except the forward-pass made by her adversary, the only one so far attempted by either side.  On defence Claflin had proved no stronger than the Maroon-and-Grey.  In punting, Harris, for Brimfield, and Wentworth, for Claflin, had shown about the same ability, what advantage there might be being in favour of Harris, whose punts had been a little better placed.  So far it was anybody’s game, and the rival schools, during the intermission, sang and cheered loudly and confidently.