Big Dog snapped the ball to River. Sac valley Defense closed in. The ball belatedly left River's hands. Moving between River and Casey, a Defense Lineman grabbed it, broke through two Huygens Offense Linemen and took off running.
Huygens was in possession third and long when -- as the teams changed sides -- River, who all summer long had rehearsed fall semester conversation with the Boston-bred co-ed who played the glockenspiel in the band, noticed how beautiful she looked in the band's fashionable new silver and grey uniforms. It was this that was in River's mind and not the next play, a screen pass where he needed to get the ball off quickly to Casey.
"There is," Griff once said, Caydance remembered, "an unsettling time after the switching of sides between quarters. It is the broken flow and the theoretically exact resumption of play, as if nothing has happened". Second Quarter.