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The Half-Back

CHAPTER VI
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You take it about on the toe-cap.

Remember that the broader the surface that propels the ball the greater will be the accuracy--that is, the ball has less chance of sliding off to one side when the striking surface is large.

Here's your ball coming.

Now try again, and remember what I have said about the swing at the hip.

Forget that you have any joints at all, and just let the right side of you swing round as it will." Then Remsen passed on to the next man and Joel pegged away, doing better and better, as he soon discovered, every try, until a whistle blew from the middle of the field and the players gathered about the captains on the fifty-five-yard line.


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