[The Half-Back by Ralph Henry Barbour]@TWC D-Link bookThe Half-Back CHAPTER XXIII 15/21
Dutton, Selkirk, Murdoch--Murdoch ?" "Right!" The voice emerged from the folds of a woolen sweater which had stubbornly refused to go on or off.
With a smile the head coach continued the list, each man responding as his name was announced and crowding to the doorway. "Chesney, Rutland, Burbridge, Barton--" A murmur arose from the listening throng, and Chase, a tall, pale-faced youth, his cheek exhibiting the marks of a contact with some one's shoe cleats, groaned loudly and flung himself on to a bench, where he sat looking blindly before him until the list was finished. "Story, Prince--" "Here!" called the latter, jumping from his seat.
Then a sharp, agonized cry followed, and Prince toppled over, clutching vainly at the air.
The head coach paused.
The doctor and the trainer pushed toward the fallen man, and a moment later the former announced quietly: "He's fainted, sir." "Can he go on ?" asked the head coach. "He is out of the question.
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