a quarter after two
It was distinctly a social occasion , for fathers , mothers , sisters , brothers , aunts and uncles had descended upon the school in numbers and half the fellows were parading around before the hour set for the game with admiring relatives or friends , showing their rooms and the dining-hall and the gymnasium , and looking all the time a bit bored at the fuss and secretly enjoying it . Harry Westcott was seen with his father and sister in tow , while Roy Draper was surrounded by an enthusiastic flock of female relatives . Overhead a clear blue sky , scarcely so much as flecked with a cloud , arched radiantly . The breeze was much too light to place a handicap on either goal , and when , at a quarter after two , the visiting team trotted across from the gymnasium , ducked under the rope at the end of the grand stand and started to warm up it was seen that the long punts she sent away showed scarcely any influence from the wind . Of course Claflin , banked at the east end of the stand , greeted her warriors royally , and , of course , Brimfield gave them a hearty cheer , too . But that acclaim was nothing to the burst of applause that went up when the home team , twenty strong , led by Andy Miller , romped on . Then Brimfield shouted herself hoarse and made such a clamour that the cheer which the Claflin leaders evoked a moment later sounded like a whisper by comparison .