The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf
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"The young hero of this story is carried through preparatory school and the freshman year at Harvard. The story closes with an account of the Harvard-Yale game."
Chapters (60)(click to expand)
- THE HALF-BACK
- A Story of School, Football, and Golf
- RALPH HENRY BARBOUR
- Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst
- 1909
- TO
- EVERY AMERICAN BOY WHO LOVES HONEST, MANLY SPORT, THIS STORY IS DEDICATED.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- THE HALF-BACK
- CHAPTER I.
- THE BOY IN THE STRAW HAT.
- CHAPTER II.
- STATION ROAD AND RIVER PATH.
- CHAPTER III.
- OUTFIELD WEST.
- CHAPTER IV.
- THE HEAD COACH.
- CHAPTER V.
- A RAINY AFTERNOON.
- CHAPTER VI.
- THE PRACTICE GAME.
- CHAPTER VII.
- A LETTER HOME.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE GOLF TOURNAMENT.
- CHAPTER IX.
- AN EVENING CALL.
- CHAPTER X.
- THE BROKEN BELL ROPE.
- CHAPTER XI.
- TWO HEROES.
- CHAPTER XII.
- THE PROBATION OF BLAIR.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- THE GAME WITH ST. EUSTACE.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- THE GOODWIN SCHOLARSHIP.
- CHAPTER XV.
- THE BOAT RACE.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- GOOD-BY TO HILLTON.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- THE SACRED ORDER OF HULLABALOOLOO.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- VISITORS FROM MARCHDALE.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- A VARSITY SUB.
- CHAPTER XX.
- AN OLD FRIEND.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- THE DEPARTURE.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- BEFORE THE BATTLE.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- HARWELL VS. YATES--THE FIRST HALF.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- HARWELL VS. YATES--A FAULT AND A REQUITAL.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- THE RETURN.
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