four o'clock
Thacher faced Brimfield with a light team , and , unable to gain consistently through the line , reverted to kicking . This gave the visiting backs some good practice in the handling of punts but gained the home team little advantage . Brimfield rolled up twenty-six points in four ten-minute periods and was scored on but once when , in the third quarter , Thacher managed a brilliant field-goal from the enemy 's thirty-three yards . The contest was all over before four o'clock and Brimfield made a wild rush from the grounds to the town in the endeavour to get the four-fifteen trolley for Wharton . The team , which was provided with a coach , and about half the `` rooters '' succeeded , but the rest , Clint and Amy among them , arrived too late . As there was not another car until a quarter to five , they set out to kill time by viewing the town . Thacher was not a very large place and , after wandering up one side of the main street and down the other , looking in all the windows , and leisurely partaking of college-ices at the principal drug store , there was still ten minutes left to be disposed of .