nine o'clock
Everything promised victory . But alas ! for Sam 's hopes . At nine o'clock a staggering blow fell when Vial , his partner on the right wing of the forward line , rode over with the news that Coleman , their star goal-keeper , their ultimate reliance on the defence line , had been stepped on by a horse and rendered useless for the day . It was , indeed , a crushing calamity . Sam spent an hour trying to dig up a substitute . The only possible substitutes were Hepworth and Biggs , neither of them first class men but passable , and Fatty Rose .