Chapter I: Front Matter

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FULL-BACK FOSTER

FULL-BACK FOSTER

by

RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

Author of Left End Edwards, Left Guard Gilbert, etc.

Illustrated by E. C. Caswell

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York

Copyright, 1919 by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I MYRON ARRIVES 1
II SO DOES JOE DOBBINS 13
III THE "IMPOSSIBLE FELLOW" 24
IV MYRON DECIDES TO STAY 36
V ON THE GRIDIRON 48
VI "A. T. MERRIMAN" 60
VII WITH THE AWKWARD SQUAD 70
VIII JOE TALKS SENSE 82
IX MYRON LOSES HIS TEMPER 96
X THE CHALLENGE 110
XI MYRON MISSES AN ENGAGEMENT 121
XII ELDREDGE REJECTS A SUBSTITUTE 132
XIII MYRON CHANGES HIS MIND 145
XIV "CHAS" 157
XV THE PLAN 173
XVI CONSPIRACY 184
XVII A CHANCE ENCOUNTER 196
XVIII MYRON GETS HIS CHANCE 211
XIX DOCTOR LANE INTERVENES 226
XX ANDY TAKES A JOURNEY 236
XXI AN EARLY MORNING CALL 249
XXII MYRON COMES BACK 259
XXIII REINSTATED 269
XXIV EDDIE APPLIES THE BRAKE 279
XXV FALSE COLOURS 293
XXVI BEHIND THE STAND 305
XXVII FULL-BACK FOSTER 317

ILLUSTRATIONS

He felt that he was being discussed _Frontispiece_

FACING
PAGE

"You let me up!" 142

The stranger was treated to quite a fund of
information 200

Straight across the last white line to victory 324

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