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The Half-Back

CHAPTER I
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Look at that fellow over yonder, the one with the baggy trousers and straw hat.

The idea of that fellow coming down here just out of the hayfield and having the cheek to report for football practice! What do you suppose he would do if some one threw a ball at him ?" "Catch it in his hat," suggested Wallace Clausen.
"He _does_ look a bit--er--rural," said Outfield West, eying the youth in question.

"I fear he doesn't know a bulger from a baffy," he added sorrowfully.
"What's more to the subject," said Wallace Clausen, "is that he probably doesn't know a touch-down from a referee.

There's where the fun will come in." "Well, I'm no judge of football, thank goodness!" answered West, "but from the length of that chap I'll bet he's a bully kicker." "Nonsense.

That's what a fellow always thinks who doesn't know anything about the game.


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