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By Ralph Henry Barbour
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The narrative follows a high-school football captain and his coach as they rebuild an academy team, recruiting promising players, organizing practices, and confronting lineup challenges. A reserve player, Leonard, earns promotion to the varsity, learns tactics, and seizes a pivotal moment on the field; team drills, scrimmages, rival contests, eligibility questions, and personal dynamics shape the season. Episodes depict locker-room camaraderie, strategic adjustments, and a hard-fought championship-style game that tests loyalty and skill. The book balances play-by-play athletic action with young men's friendships, mentorship from the coach, and the pressures of school rules and social life during a single, eventful season.

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Title: Right Guard Grant

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Illustrator: Leslie Crump

Release date: September 22, 2016 [eBook #53116]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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RIGHT GUARD GRANT

THE FOOTBALL ELEVEN BOOKS

BY

Ralph Henry Barbour

  • LEFT END EDWARDS
  • LEFT TACKLE THAYER
  • LEFT GUARD GILBERT
  • CENTER RUSH ROWLAND
  • FULL-BACK FOSTER
  • QUARTER-BACK BATES
  • LEFT HALF HARMON
  • RIGHT END EMERSON
  • RIGHT GUARD GRANT

RIGHT GUARD
GRANT

BY

RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

AUTHOR OF

LEFT END EDWARDS,
FULL-BACK FOSTER,
RIGHT END EMERSON, Etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY

LESLIE CRUMP

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS      NEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1923,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Captain and Coach 1
II Two in a Taxi 12
III Enter Mr. Eldred Chichester Staples 25
IV Leonard Gets Promotion 35
V The Boy on the Porch 49
VI The Season Begins 61
VII Just One of the Subs 74
VIII A Strange Resemblance 91
IX Leonard Makes a Tackle 102
X The Second Team Comes Over 111
XI Alton Seeks Revenge 122
XII Victory Hard Won 137
XIII An Evening Call 147
XIV Mr. Cade Makes An Entry 159
XV A Tip from McGrath 171
XVI First Trick to the Enemy 187
XVII Slim Retreats 198
XVIII Leonard Comes to the Party 208
XIX Not Eligible 219
XX Right Guard Grant 233
XXI Renneker Explains 245
XXII Before the Battle 260
XXIII “Fifty-Fifty!” 276

ILLUSTRATIONS

Then it was that Leonard had his great moment Frontispiece
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There was another half-hour for each squad with the tackling dummies 62
“That wouldn’t be playing the game,” he answered 210
On the same play he got one more 282

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