Change Signals: A Story of the New FootballBarbour, Ralph Henry
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Change Signals: A Story of the New Football
Barbour, Ralph Henry
Football -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction
“I was just looking. You certainly surprised me, Curt. I hadn’t any
idea you’d be such a sport. It’s funny how things happen like that.
Sometimes a fellow hasn’t any idea of doing a thing, and then, first
thing he knows, he’s gone and done it! Queer, isn’t it?”
“Yes,” murmured Kendall. “But――it’s a mighty good-looking suit of
clothes, isn’t it?”
CHAPTER XIII
GOLF WITH BROADWOOD
All that week Kendall had wished that there were two of him that
he might both follow football practice and pursue the tantalizing
intricacies of golf and the friendship of Ned Tooker. He had attended
football practice only twice, on Tuesday and Thursday, and practice was
getting very interesting and exciting now, for there was a scrimmage
every afternoon between the first and second teams, and, since it was
now the height of the season, those scrimmages were no love-feast.
Every player was animated either by the stern determination to hold
his place at all costs――if he was a first-string man――or to wrest
someone else’s place from him――if he was a substitute. And so it was
nip and tuck between many good friends. There was an exciting contest
on between Norton, the regular right end, and Sayer, a younger fellow
who was the first choice substitute. And Arthur Thompson had created
a mild sensation by beating out both Green and Fayette and standing
an excellent show of playing for a time at least in the remaining
games as a substitute to Stearns. The rivalry for the position of
quarter-back was less intense just for the reason that it was Payson’s
policy to use both Simms and Holmes to about the same extent. Hammel,
Simms, Ridge and Norton had been receiving special instruction in
punting and drop-kicking every day for a week past, but Simms and
Norton were the only ones who it seemed had profited much. Simms was
getting off better punts and Norton was gradually developing into a
fair drop-kicker. It was this dawning ability that might insure him his
position and defeat Sayer’s ambition.
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