Chapter 24: “Locke Back!”

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌​‌​‌⁠“Hoskins’s ball!” The referee, having waded knee-deep in the pile-up of writhing players, placed the pigskin on the visitors’ twenty-seven yards and skipped aside. “Third down! About six to go!”

Barry watched from the bench, a gray blanket draped about him. He had been watching for upward of twenty-five anxious minutes during which the ancient rivals had charged up and down the field with scant adv