------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited as _italic_. Bold characters are delimited as =bold=. The few footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. IN THE LINE =The Phillips Exeter Series.= -------------- BY ALBERTUS T. DUDLEY. -------------- =FOLLOWING THE BALL.= Illustrated by CHARLES COPELAND. Price, $1.25. =MAKING THE NINE.= Illustrated by CHARLES COPELAND and from Photographs of Scenes at Exeter. Price, $1.25. =IN THE LINE.= Illustrated by CHARLES COPELAND. Price, $1.25. [Illustration: DOWN THE TWO WENT IN A WHIRL OF LEGS.—_Page 290._] PHILLIPS EXETER SERIES ---------------------------------------------------------------- IN THE LINE BY ALBERTUS T. DUDLEY AUTHOR OF “FOLLOWING THE BALL” AND “MAKING THE NINE” _ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES COPELAND_ [Illustration] BOSTON. LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY. Published, August, 1905. ------- _All Rights Reserved_ ------- IN THE LINE. PRINTED IN U.S.A. TO MY ADVISERS AND HELPERS F. P. D. AND W. P. D. PREFACE IN THE LINE is a story of school life and football rather than of football and school life. In its football it is meant to supplement FOLLOWING THE BALL, as WITH MASK AND MIT in its baseball will supplement MAKING THE NINE, each book emphasizing a different department of play. The story is in no sense history, and no attempt has been made to describe actual persons.