THE HALF-BACK

A Story of School,Football, and Golf

By

RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst

1909

TO

EVERY AMERICAN BOY

WHO LOVES HONEST, MANLY SPORT,

THIS STORY IS DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

• CHAPTER I.--THE BOY IN THE STRAW HAT.
• CHAPTER II.--STATION ROAD AND RIVER PATH.
• CHAPTER III.--OUTFIELD WEST.
• CHAPTER IV.--THE HEAD COACH.
• CHAPTER V.--A RAINY AFTERNOON.
• CHAPTER VI.--THE PRACTICE GAME.
• CHAPTER VII.--A LETTER HOME.
• CHAPTER VIII.--THE GOLF TOURNAMENT.
• CHAPTER IX.--AN EVENING CALL.
• CHAPTER X.--THE BROKEN BELL ROPE.
• CHAPTER XI.--TWO HEROES.
• CHAPTER XII.--THE PROBATION OF BLAIR.
• CHAPTER XIII.--THE GAME WITH ST. EUSTACE.
• CHAPTER XIV.--THE GOODWIN SCHOLARSHIP.
• CHAPTER XV.--THE BOAT RACE.
• CHAPTER XVI.--GOOD-BY TO HILLTON.
• CHAPTER XVII.--THE SACRED ORDER OF HULLABALOOLOO.
• CHAPTER XVIII.--VISITORS FROM MARCHDALE.
• CHAPTER XIX.--A VARSITY SUB.
• CHAPTER XX.--AN OLD FRIEND.
• CHAPTER XXI.--THE DEPARTURE.
• CHAPTER XXII.--BEFORE THE BATTLE.
• CHAPTER XXIII.--HARWELL vs. YATES--THE FIRST HALF.
• CHAPTER XXIV.--HARWELL vs. YATES--A FAULT AND A REQUITAL.
• CHAPTER XXV.--THE RETURN.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

• A leap in the nick of time.
• Joel's arrival at school.
• His next drive took him cleanly over Rocky Bunker.
• ...