“Captain of the Crew” follows “For the Honor of the School” but is in every sense a complete story. The author is concerned both with school athletics and with the influences that build character. _Erskine Series_ Behind the Line A story of life at a preparatory school with the chief interest centering around football. The author gives an intimate view of the preparation and training necessary for a big game. Weatherby’s Inning A story of a young man’s struggle against untoward circumstances in a small New England college. Baseball furnishes the chief athletic interest. On Your Mark Track work furnishes the athletic interest in this story of school life. _The Grafton Series_ _These are stories of life at Grafton School. They are full of sport and games, and will interest any boy who likes the rivalry of contests._ Rivals for the Team Hugh Ordway comes to America from England. His room-mate, star half-back of the team, gets him started in football, and on the eve of the great contest they find themselves rivals for the same position. Winning His Game The day of the game between Grafton and Mount Morris arrives and Bud Baker and Jimmy Logan, two important players, are missing. A search reveals that they have missed the train. And then――well, read the story. Hitting the Line Monty Grail comes East from Wyoming to enter Mount Morris School. At the Grand Central Terminal he meets two prominent students of Grafton who induce him to enter their school instead. In the end he is not sorry he changed his mind. _The Purple Pennant Series_ _In these books Mr. Barbour tells of life in the average high school. Each book is a thriller._ The Lucky Seventh Gordon Merrick, with Dick Lovering, forms a ball team of the remnants of the High School nine and challenges the boys of the summer colony. The Secret Play Clearfield High School loses her football coach, and against much criticism, Dick Lovering, a cripple, coaches the team. When the day of the big match comes, some unexpected things happen. The Purple Pennant An athletic meet in which the boys have running races, hurdling, pole-vaulting and hammer throwing, is the climax of this story. The book tells the story of the purple pennant and how it came into being. _Each, illustrated, $1.50 net_ These Are Appleton Books D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, New York Transcriber’s Notes: ――Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_); text in bold by “equal” signs (=bold=). ――Except for the frontispiece, illustrations have been moved to follow the text that they illustrate. ――Printer’s, punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected. ――Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. ――Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved. End of Project Gutenberg's Guarding His Goal, by Ralph Henry Barbour