Fourth Down!

No one seemed satisfied with the day’s performance. The First resented the enemy’s gains through their line and the Second declared stoutly that if they had been taught a decent...

Only Horace Ramsey was at home when Toby entered Number 31. Ramsey appeared very glad to see the visitor, and he was quite fussed-up during the process of getting Toby comfortab...

A sense of duty is sometimes a most inconvenient thing to possess. That Monday night it was a sense of duty that sent Toby up to Number 31, and he went laggingly, feeling very c...

Arnold was interested and amused, but he didn’t approve, and he said so. “You’ll have those freaks hanging around your neck for the rest of the year, T. Tucker,” he remonstrated...

Toby’s suspicions were confirmed the next morning. On the way back from chapel he fell in with Sid Creel. Sid’s eyes were twinkling merrily as he joined arms with Toby and fell...

The Second Team had a schedule of its own, although it wasn’t very lengthy. It consisted of two games, the first with Greenburg High School and the second with Latimer High Scho...

Yardley entered the final stage of football that week with its customary enthusiasm and single-mindedness. There had been already two or three meetings in Assembly Hall, on the...

George Tubb paused with a foot on the stairs to the third floor of Whitson and put the question with elaborate carelessness. Toby hesitated the fraction of a moment. He knew whi...

For thirty minutes of actual playing time the Blue of Yardley and the Green of Broadwood had advanced and retreated up and down the trampled field of battle. And now the fifteen...

The outcome of the Forest Hill game was a favorite topic of discussion during the next few days. Although Yardley had won in the last four minutes, by means of a well-earned tou...

One of his companions in the day-coach tossed the magazine he had been idly glancing through, to the top of the pile of suitcases beside him, yawned widely, and nodded without e...

The school year began the next morning. Many new faces confronted Toby in the recitation rooms and some familiar ones were missing. Toby’s list of friends had not been a long on...

Of recent years the custom of having separate organizations for the First and Second Teams from the very outset of the season had obtained at Yardley. In the old days the Second...

First, the Orange changed her back-field formation entirely. Instead of standing close to the line, three abreast, the two halves and the full-back retired to a position a good...

That evening Tubb’s letter fell to the floor when Toby moved a book on the study table, and Toby, with a qualm of conscience, rescued it and re-read it, a perplexed frown on his...

“Asked me to lend him another half! Said he’d pay it all back next Wednesday, when he gets his allowance. What do you know about that? That fellow’s got the makings of a financi...

That momentous Saturday dawned crisp and bright. Yardley Hall School was early afoot and there was, from the first awakening, a flood of contagious excitement, repressed during...

Two mornings later Toby again played tennis with Horace Ramsey. This time Horace captured the first set, mainly on his serve, and made Toby work hard to keep ahead in the second...

It didn’t take long for the news to get around the school. By evening it was known everywhere that Toby Tucker was on probation for waylaying Roy Frick and beating him up. A goo...

The Second Team started its training table Monday. The First had done so a week earlier. The tables, each accommodating eighteen persons, occupied the two farther corners of the...

The First Team came back hard that afternoon, rolling up a total of 25 points against Carrel’s and holding the opponent to a single touchdown. Yardley scored in each period, sta...

It was a brute of a day, with a chilling, drizzling rain and a sodden, sloppy field. Toby had been out of sorts since the moment of his awakening to a dimly-lighted room and the...

At eight o’clock that evening, having reached Wissining only a little more than an hour late and done full justice to supper, Toby and Arnold were busily unpacking and setting t...

Although Toby was back in Whitson before nine that evening, it is needless to say that the note he had promised himself to write to George Tubb did not get written. In fact Toby...

To Toby’s further annoyance he slid into the end seat, as he did so producing a folded but rather crumpled handkerchief from a pocket. This he held across to Toby.