For the good of the team

Two boys met in the Grand Central Station in New York one warm afternoon in late September and, greeting each other, passed hurriedly toward the gate beyond which the Hartford E...

Stuart didn’t look for Mr. Haynes that evening. Instead, after supper in Safford’s only restaurant, he and Jack, together with three other early arrivals, went to the moving pic...

Two workouts that day, although each was brief, left Stuart’s body rather lame, for, while he had led a mildly strenuous life in camp and at sea during the last three months, so...

The football training table was customarily formed about four days after the beginning of the term. It was in reality two tables, at which were gathered some twenty-two of the f...

Manning disposed of Lansing High School the next day without difficulty. The score, 20 to 0, did not, in fact, represent the true strength of the home team, for in the last half...

No one learned of that conversation in the coach’s quarters but Neil. And Neil, although he said little, was, in Stuart’s opinion, none too sympathetic. Which, of course, means...

Before the Forest Hill game was a thing of the past, however, the dissensions between coach and captain had produced the inevitable result. There was a feeling of disquiet and a...

Amazement slowly gave way to anger. The thing was so unexpected that for a while he could not believe it, and the idea that it was a hoax presented itself. But that theory vanis...

Stuart borrowed some clubs from Fred Locker and tried to interest himself in golf and, for several afternoons, with Neil swinging along beside him on his crutches, haunted the l...

The Fall Handicap Meet took place on a Thursday afternoon, and practically the whole school turned out in the rôle of contestant, official or onlooker. Of course there were some...

Stuart was glad when the summons came, for the hour was growing late, the shadows were stretching far across the field and the air was getting decidedly chill. Even the woolen b...

Although Stuart managed to remain away from the football field during practice, the temptation to witness the Saturday contests from a closer point of observation than the runni...

Neil was sitting in an armchair in Coach Haynes’ front room, his crutches against his knees. The coach sat near by, close to one of the long front windows, completely surrounded...

Stuart’s return to the fold was a matter of almost as much discussion as his previous retirement had been. But where he had been censured before for leaving the squad he was now...

After Breakfast Sunday morning Jack appeared at Number 12 Lacey with a big bundle of newspapers under his arm. It was his first call for over a week and, had Neil been absent, t...

The cold spell continued well into the middle of the week, with brisk winds from the northwest and, if rumor was to be credited, a momentary flurry of snow Tuesday evening. The...

Why, when he had already gone through one Pearsall game, Stuart should have awakened on the morning of November twentieth with his heart in his mouth was beyond him. But he did,...

No team could continue the pace that Manning had set at the start, and when Cutts had again kicked off from the midfield and Pearsall had caught and reeled off twelve yards ther...

When the outburst that acclaimed Le Gette’s goal had finally died down a strange silence descended over the stands. Near midfield the teams were cheering each other, but the che...

The football banquet and election was held the Saturday after the Pearsall game, as was the established custom. Coach Haynes, urged to remain for it, did so, and sat at the head...