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The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron By: H. Irving Hancock (1868-1922) |
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or Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron By H. Irving Hancock CONTENTS CHAPTERS
I. Sulking in the Football Camp
II. The Start of the Dodge Mystery
III. Dick Stumbles on Something
IV. The 'Soreheads' in Conclave
V. At the End of the Trail
VI. The Small Soul of a Gentleman
VII. The Football Notice Goes Up
VIII. Dick Fires Both Barrels
IX. Bayliss Gets Some Advice
X. Two Girls Turn the Laugh
XI. Does Football Teach Real Nerve
XII. Dick, Like Caesar, Refuses the Crown
XIII. Bert Dodge "Starts Something"
XIV. The "Strategy" of a School Traitor
XV. A "Fear" for the Plotter
XVI. "The Cattle Car for Yours"
XVII. Facing the "School Cut"
XVIII. "Prin." Gets in the Practice
XIX. Laura and Belle Have a Secret
XX. In the Line of Daring
XXI. The Price of Bravery
XXII. The Thanksgiving Day Game
XXIII. Sulker and Real Man
XXIV. Conclusion
CHAPTER I SULKING IN THE FOOTBALL CAMP
"Football is all at sixes and sevens, this year," muttered Dave
Darrin disconsolately. "I can tell you something more than that," added Tom Reade mysteriously. "What?" asked Dick Prescott, looking at Reade with interest, for
it was unusual for Reade to employ that tone or air. "Two members of the Athletics Committee have intimated to Coach
Morton that they'd rather see football passed by this year." " What ?" gasped Dick. He was staring hard now. "Fact," nodded Tom. "At least, I believe it to be a fact." "There must be something wrong with that news," put in Greg Holmes
anxiously. "No; I think it's all straight enough," persisted Tom, shaking
his head to silence Holmes. "It came to me straight enough, though
I don't feel at liberty to tell you who told me." All six members of Dick & Co. were present. The scene of the
meeting was Dick Prescott's own room at his home over the bookstore
kept by his parents. The hour was about nine o'clock in the evening.
It was Friday evening of the first week of the new school year.
The fellows had dropped in to talk over the coming football
season, because the week had been one of mysterious unrest in
the football squad at Gridley High School. Just what the trouble was, where it lay or how it had started
was puzzling the whole High School student body. The squad was
not yet duly organized. This was never attempted until in the
second week of the school year. Yet it was always the rule that
the new seniors who, during their junior year, had made good records
on either the school eleven, or the second eleven, should form
the nucleus of the new pigskin squad. Added to these, were the
new juniors, formerly of the sophomore class, who had shown the
most general promise in athletics during the preceding school
year. Gridley High School aimed to lead to be away at the top in
all school athletics. The "Gridley spirit," which would not accept
defeat in sports, was proverbial throughout the state. And so, though the football squad was not yet formally organized
for training and practice, yet, up to the last few days, it had
been expected that a finer gridiron crowd than usual would present
itself for weeding, sifting and training by Coach Morton. The
latter was also one of the submasters of Gridley High School. Since the school year had opened, however, undercurrent news had
been rife that there would be many "soreheads," and that this
would be an "off year" in Gridley football. Just where the trouble
lay, or what the "kick" was about, was a puzzle to most members
of the student body. It was an actual mystery to Dick & Co. "What is all the undermining row about, anyway?" demanded Dick,
looking around at his chums. Dick was pacing the floor. Dave,
Tom and Greg Holmes were seated on the edge of the bed. Dan Dalzell
was lying back in the one armchair that the room boasted. Harry
Hazelton was standing by the door. "I can't make a single thing out of it all," sighed Dan. "All
I can get at is that some of the seniors and some of our class,
the juniors, are talking as though they didn't care about playing
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