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There might just as well have been none before that , for it 's quite useless to expect a boy to put his mind on his studies only a few hours before the Big Game ! At eleven the ` varsity players and substitutes assembled at the gymnasium and , escorted by Mr. Detweiler and Mr. Boutelle , took a walk across the fields and hills at an even though moderate pace . They were back a little before twelve . Dinner was at noon , and by a quarter to one they were climbing into coaches in front of Main Hall and at one-eight they , together with most of the school , were pulling out of the Brimfield station on their journey to Westplains , twelve miles distant . Claflin was an older school than Brimfield and had a much larger enrolment . Until last year the Blue had won three football games from the Maroon-and-Grey , all , in fact , that the two schools had played together . Last year the tide had turned and Brimfield had nosed out her rival by one touchdown .