The School Four

Chapter 2: PREFACE

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Set in a private school in an Eastern city, the narrative follows students who create and sustain a small interscholastic league for football and rowing. A student leader and a managing committee arrange rules, schedules, and team selection, while recruiting, trials, and training occupy much of the action. Rivalries, ambitions, and friendships shape who makes the squads and how they perform, and detailed scenes of practice and competition emphasize practical athletic technique. Throughout, episodes examine leadership, sportsmanship, and personal growth, culminating in final contests that test the boys’ resolve and the league’s ideals.

PREFACE

“The School Four” is a story of football and rowing, its scene laid in a private school in an Eastern city. As in the Phillips Exeter books, the aim has been to keep the athletics practical and technically correct, and at the same time to present such conceptions of life and conduct as may encourage the boy reader to face his own school problems with the right spirit. Later volumes will treat successively of the city high school and the country boarding-school.

To Mr. John Richardson, Jr., captain of the undefeated Harvard crew of 1908, the author owes a special debt for expert counsel, for the freedom of the Harvard coaching launch, and, above all else, for personal inspiration.

A. T. DUDLEY.