Chapter I: Front Matter

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RIGHT GUARD GRANT

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THE FOOTBALL ELEVEN BOOKS

BY

RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

LEFT END EDWARDS LEFT TACKLE THAYER LEFT GUARD GILBERT CENTER RUSH ROWLAND FULL-BACK FOSTER QUARTER-BACK BATES LEFT HALF HARMON RIGHT END EMERSON RIGHT GUARD GRANT

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RIGHT GUARD GRANT

by

RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

Author of Left End Edwards, Full-Back Foster, Right End Emerson, etc.

Illustrated by Leslie Crump

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1923, By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

Printed in the U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I CAPTAIN AND COACH 1
II TWO IN A TAXI 12
III ENTER MR. ELDRED CHICHESTER STAPLES 25
IV LEONARD GETS PROMOTION 35
V THE BOY ON THE PORCH 49
VI THE SEASON BEGINS 61
VII JUST ONE OF THE SUBS 74
VIII A STRANGE RESEMBLANCE 91
IX LEONARD MAKES A TACKLE 102
X THE SECOND TEAM COMES OVER 111
XI ALTON SEEKS REVENGE 122
XII VICTORY HARD WON 137
XIII AN EVENING CALL 147
XIV MR. CADE MAKES AN ENTRY 159
XV A TIP FROM MCGRATH 171
XVI FIRST TRICK TO THE ENEMY 187
XVII SLIM RETREATS 198
XVIII LEONARD COMES TO THE PARTY 208
XIX NOT ELIGIBLE 219
XX RIGHT GUARD GRANT 233
XXI RENNEKER EXPLAINS 245
XXII BEFORE THE BATTLE 260
XXIII “FIFTY-FIFTY!” 276

ILLUSTRATIONS

Then it was that Leonard had his great moment _Frontispiece_

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There was another half-hour for each squad with the
tackling dummies 62

“That wouldn’t be playing the game,” he answered 210

On the same play he got one more 282

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