CHAPTER XVI A CELEBRATION 181 CHAPTER XVII BACK AGAIN 194 CHAPTER XVIII FOOTBALL 207 CHAPTER XIX MORE FOOTBALL 219 CHAPTER XX A ROUND ROBIN 231 CHAPTER XXI A LOOPHOLE 240 CHAPTER XXII EXPERT OPINION 252 CHAPTER XXIII THE FIRST HALF 263 CHAPTER XXIV THE GAME ENDS 284 CHAPTER XXV ON THE WAY HOME 297 ILLUSTRATIONS Down the two went in a whirl of legs _Frontispiece_ PAGE Durand ... walked deliberately back to the 47 cushioned space “Pick up that hat, do you hear!” 118 The pile that covered the ball three yards beyond 271 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE LINE ---------- CHAPTER I RAW MATERIAL Wolcott Lindsay Senior, with Wolcott Lindsay Junior, and Wolcott Junior’s Mamma, arrived in Boston on New Year’s day, after buffeting for sixty hours against a furious northwest storm that left the great ice-coated liner looking like a glass ship taken from a globe on the nursery shelf and magnified a thousand times. Wolcott Junior, being a healthy, vigorous youth, with thousands of footpounds of energy running hourly to waste, and having the overweening confidence in his own powers which distinguishes some otherwise very attractive specimens of American boyhood, had found the restraint of the cabin extremely irksome. Had the voyage lasted much longer, he must have discovered some means of getting by the barriers which kept him in safe imprisonment. In that case there might have been no Wolcott Lindsay Junior, and no story of “In the Line” to be written.