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Around the End

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By Ralph Henry Barbour
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The narrative follows a school football team and its young players as they prepare for and contest a season marked by scrimmages, practices, and decisive matches. Central figures include earnest athletes whose abilities, rivalries, and friendships shape team dynamics; trials encompass injuries, strategic gambits, a spying incident, a fog-bound rescue, wagers, and tense finishes that test loyalty and leadership. Scenes alternate between locker-room planning, on-field play, and personal moments that reveal character growth, culminating in a close, suspenseful game that underscores teamwork, perseverance, and the spirit of the school.

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Title: Around the End

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Illustrator: C. M. Relyea

Charles L. Wrenn

Release date: July 8, 2019 [eBook #59874]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AROUND THE END ***

AROUND THE END

BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR.

  • Around the End.
  • The Junior Trophy.
  • Change Signals!
  • For Yardley.
  • Finkler’s Field.
  • Winning His “Y.”
  • The New Boy at Hilltop.
  • Double Play.
  • Forward Pass!
  • The Spirit of the School.
  • Four in Camp.
  • Four Afoot.
  • Four Afloat.
  • The Arrival of Jimpson.
  • Behind the Line.
  • Captain of the Crew.
  • For the Honor of the School.
  • The Half-Back.
  • On Your Mark.
  • Weatherby’s Inning.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY, NEW YORK.


AROUND THE END

By

RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

AUTHOR OF “THE HALF-BACK,” “CHANGE SIGNALS,” “FORWARD PASS,” ETC.

NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1913

Copyright, 1913, by

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The First Scrimmage 1
II. The Rabbit and the Duke 12
III. Cotton Tries Football 28
IV. At Sound View 45
V. Lost in the Fog 57
VI. The Rescue 64
VII. Gerald Maps a Campaign 79
VIII. Cotton Makes a Wager 93
IX. Harry Scents a Mystery 107
X. The Spy 123
XI. Broadwood is Foiled 138
XII. Cotton Meets a Friend 150
XIII. The Duke Starts Something 160
XIV. Kirk Exacts a Promise 177
XV. The News Predicts Defeat 190
XVI. Cotton Writes a Letter 200
XVII. A Fumble 209
XVIII. Kendall Goes Back 220
XIX. 9-6 229
XX. Harry Remembers 241
XXI. Kendall Makes a Speech 254
XXII. Two Sheets of Buff Paper 267
XXIII. “No Goal!” 278
XXIV. Around the End 290
XXV. Kendall is Mistaken 299
XXVI. Gerald is Surprised 312

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  FACING
PAGE
“To the right, off the port bow of the launch, a hulking shadow took shape.”  Frontispiece
  
“The boy dropped to the floor and squirmed quickly from sight.” 18
“‘Hello! Hello! This is Mr. Gibson.... What say?’” 142
“Something crashed against him, driving the remaining breath from his body.” 296