Chapter I: Preface
“The School Four” is a story of football and rowing, its scene laid in a private school in an Eastern city. As in the Phillips Exeter books, the aim has been to keep the athletics practical and technically correct, and at the same time to present such conceptions of life and conduct as may encourage the boy reader to face his own school problems with the right spirit. Later volumes will treat successively of the city high school and the country boarding-school.
To Mr. John Richardson, Jr., captain of the undefeated Harvard crew of 1908, the author owes a special debt for expert counsel, for the freedom of the Harvard coaching launch, and, above all else, for personal inspiration.
A. T. DUDLEY.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
JOHN SMITH, PRESIDENT
CHAPTER II
THE CUP
CHAPTER III
ARCHIBALD DUNN
CHAPTER IV
RECRUITS FOR THE FOOTBALL SQUAD
CHAPTER V
AT ADAMS’S
CHAPTER VI
THE STORY OF JASON
CHAPTER VII
SUMNER CHOOSES A SUCCESSOR
CHAPTER VIII
A SLIGHTED OFFER
CHAPTER IX
THE NEWBURY GAME
CHAPTER X
THE SCOUTS BRING NEWS
CHAPTER XI
A FRUITLESS INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XII
PRESIDENT JOHN’S IDEALS
CHAPTER XIII
THE COMMITTEE DECIDES
CHAPTER XIV
THE TROWBRIDGE GAME
CHAPTER XV
DUNN’S DISAPPOINTMENTS
CHAPTER XVI
MIKE ADVISES
CHAPTER XVII
A KINDLED AMBITION
CHAPTER XVIII
THE SHOOTING MATCH
CHAPTER XIX
A LOSS TO THE NINE
CHAPTER XX
IN THE PAIR-OAR
CHAPTER XXI
THE SECOND CREW
CHAPTER XXII
A SHIFT IN THE BOAT
CHAPTER XXIII
THE WEAKENED HEART
CHAPTER XXIV
THE TRIALS
CHAPTER XXV
THE FINAL STRUGGLE
CHAPTER XXVI
CONCLUSION
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ILLUSTRATIONS
The Westcott man clutched the ball over his rival’s head
“They ought to tie a string to it and give Fatty the end”
His feet going like the arms of a hay tedder
Swung him directly into Hardie’s arms
And watch the Varsity eight sweep magnificently by
“Go it, Bainbridge! Kill ’em, Bainbridge!”
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THE SCHOOL FOUR
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