Dick Merriwell's Trap; Or, The Chap Who BungledStandish, Burt L.
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Dick Merriwell's Trap; Or, The Chap Who Bungled
Standish, Burt L.
Boys -- Juvenile fiction; Football -- Juvenile fiction; Mystery fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction
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FARDALE SPRINGVALE
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Jolliby Right end McElroy
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Hoyt Right tackle Kerns
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Gardner Right guard Seaton
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Tubbs Center Redmond
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Shannock Left guard Hicks
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Bradley Left tackle Clack
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Lewis Left end Iott
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Smart Quarter-back Loppinger
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Merriwell Right Waldron
half-back
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Buckhart Left Chase
half-back
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Singleton Full-back Durkee
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This was a great change about on the home team from the regular order.
Buckhart had been taken off left end and given Darrell’s position at
half-back, while Darrell was dropped entirely. Lewis, a plebe, had been
substituted for Buckhart. Merriwell, Singleton, Smart, and Tubbs were
the only men who held their positions. Bradley had been shifted from
right guard to left tackle, Shannock had been removed from right end to
left guard, Jolliby had moved over from right tackle to right end, Earl
Gardner had been given Bradley’s position as right guard, and these
things had served to break the team up completely, quite taking the
confidence out of it.
Gardner had made the run with the ball, which he secured on a bad pass
and a fumble, and his had been the glory of Fardale’s only touch-down.
It seemed that Uniontown had the game “on ice.”
The visitors had played a rushing, thumping, rough-house game. At first
the cadets had met them in this business, but they lost spirit when
Uniontown kept the ball in the territory of the home team nearly all the
time, seeming altogether too heavy and strong.
Dick was desperate. He was determined to do something to bring about a
change. With the team as it was, he had small hopes of winning.
Strangely enough, all through the first half, for all of the rough
tactics of the visitors, no man was knocked out so that he was forced to
retire from the game.
Brad walked off the field by Dick’s side when the half was over. The gym
was near enough for the men to run over to it, and this they did.
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