Right Half Hollins

These was no moisture in the little easterly wind that blew across the field when Alton kicked off to Kenly, but the clouds were heavy and the afternoon was gray and chill. Lack...

With the beginning of the fourth week of the season, the football situation at Alton Academy had become fairly well straightened out. The squad was down to thirty-four, about as...

He made quick time down the walk to the gate, through State street to West and so into the Saturday night throngs. The messenger’s theory that Chick had been hurt, alarming for...

When he thought about it afterwards, and he did think about it a good deal during the next day or two, it seemed to Bert that it had been absurdly simple, that dash from the ene...

Chick--his full name, by the way, was Charles Sumner Burton--concluded on Monday that Coach Cade’s preoccupation in the matter of getting to the station in time for his train Sa...

Thursday afternoon saw a slight let-up on the field. Preliminary work was lighter and so much time was spent on signal drill that there was only enough daylight left for one scr...

“Put some glue on your hands, Chick!” advised Tommy Parish in a clear, carrying voice from his seat in the front row of the stand. The sally gained a ripple of laughter from the...

November arrived that week with several days of unseasonably warm weather, and football practice, which had started off on Monday with much zest, slowed up. More than one of the...

As a result of these and similar cogitations he went to supper in a chastened frame of mind and refused to accept any of the clapping that greeted his appearance in dining hall...

If the result of the Banning game disappointed the spectators it quite as certainly disgruntled most of the players, the first-string fellows particularly. “Why in heck,” was th...

Coach Cade was back on Monday for dinner, and to one or two especially observant members of the squad he looked more grim and determined than usual. Instead of sending the squad...

Very little was said on the way back to Upton, partly because there was little time remaining before eleven o’clock and it was necessary to hurry, and partly because both boys w...

Coles Wistar’s room in Lykes, which he shared with Ted Ball, First Team quarter-back, looked full to capacity when Chick and Bert arrived there that Monday evening. Once inside,...

Bert went to the training table with the more important members of the squad on Wednesday, and, contrary to expectation, Mr. McFadden, Second Team coach, gathered his charges to...

The Flubdub did about what Chick wanted it to do. That is to say, it didn’t haul Coach Cade over the coals, as Chick put it, but it certainly expressed its disapproval in unmist...

Bert leaned back in the chair and caressed the end of his straight nose with the rubber tip of his pencil. “Depends,” he replied. “If you mean at that evil-smelling dive you dra...

The “Flubdub,” which had been mildly disapproving of the coach and the conduct of football affairs, changed its tune in the issue of that week. It found many complimentary thing...

That line-up held some real surprises, and since it was the line-up that, with but one change, continued to the end of the season it may be well to set it down here. Left End, K...

having anything happen to it, so please guard it tenderly. Don’t let it out of your sight, Lovell. Take it with you to recitations and reflections, let it accompany you wherever...

Lorimer presented a hefty team that afternoon, one that outweighed Alton in the line and equaled her in the backfield. And it was a hard-fighting, aggressive and shifty team as...

Thursday brought the season’s preparations to an end, saw the Second Team disband--with noisy and appropriate ceremonies--and witnessed the appearance of the Football Number of...

Bus Lovell provided what in stage parlance is termed the “comic relief” that week. Bus had made three fumbles in Saturday’s game, and, although he had recovered two of them, Coa...