The High School Captain of the Team; or, Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard

ave Mak

soil and perspiration on his face and neck, came stri

Heights from scoring, but Gridley

ick?" Dave asked, as the chums, arm in

es

nstructions for

ven't

advice

who can hold those young human cyclones back as y

" muttered Darrin. "So I know there's somet

ese Hallam boys, and I find that they've already whipped two college second teams. But you'll get through them in the next Dave, if there's any human way of doing it. So that's all I'v

coach

course, with Prescott at center, and yourself jumping around as quarter-back the team would be stronger. But in Pre

looking puffed up, re

u could both show

eak," insiste

n thinking hard for my

se Dave felt that he was not doing his duty because he had not b

if Gridley played a slugging game, it wouldn't bear these Hallam boys down. As to speed and scientific points, they seem to be our masters. Wh

escaped having to make a safety to save their goa

even minutes left nei

for snap-back at its ow

ng for now was that Gridley would be

ly. He had just found a cha

playing at left end, the position that Dick

en--seven--nine!" cal

end to make. But that nine, capping all at the end, caused a swift flutter in G

the whistle trilled

bered and dashed to

mplated. Coach Morton, from the side lines, had look

team's, stood as erect as he could beside Mr. Morton, tryi

, he straightened up, tucking the ball under his

e, Hallam rushed its

d the visitors. For all of Dave's right flankers

om Reade didn't mean to try to break

guess. Tom didn't inte

rearranged, dropped the ba

iquely over Gridley's l

d put himself in motion. By the time that the ball was in the

ry Hallam man compre

ght wild whoops from the Gridley boosters, now sta

looks like a streak

ey bo

conceivable. Before him nothing menaced but big Harlowe, Hallam's fullback. Harl

d be but one result. Fenton would

ached out

of reach. Then, almost instantly, the litt

that Fenton would spring to one side. Harlowe imagined that it would

, fooled the calculation of his powerful

s first big breath in his lungs, was running as fast as ever. A man of

n stepped it over Hallam's now undefended goal line, reached d

yers of both teams came back to range up for the kick from field. Dave, his cheeks

levens again lined up for play during the last five minutes of the game

easy victory had come to naught. Unless he and ten

dn't. The time keeper br

, as he led his disheartened fellows from the field. "Tha

s you needed, didn't

ting as Dave met him

for us, just the sa

Dick, in gen

, and no

ow

fellows do something like what they've been doing under Dick Prescott, or confess myself a dub. I couldn't lean on a word from you, Dick. So you fairly drove me into planning something that wo

stepped into dressing quarters. "To tell you the truth, Dave, I think

ly grinned. H

s tried to praise

away with that," ch

had to take that bal

I was the one who

would you fellows

men were dressed several of them came to t

e, "and to make sure that you have no har

ook this in laugh

he, a bit more gloomily, "we shudder to think what would

me way, by the same coach, and we stake all our chances on any line-up that's picked for the day. It

y, all right," agree

ow, I like

rejoicing of a lively nature. From the news that had come over concerning the Hallam Heights team there ha