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The Rockspur Eleven: A Fine Football Story for Boys
The story revolves around young boys passionate about football, particularly focusing on Don Scott, a boy struggling with his temper and the challenges of teamwork, as well as his interactions with his teammates and a new, cocky coach named Dolph Renwood.
"The Rockspur Eleven: A Fine Football Story for Boys" by Burt L. Standish is a fictional novel. The story revolves around young boys passionate about football, particularly focusing on Don Scott, a boy struggling with his temper and the challenges of teamwork, as well as his interactions with his teammates and a new, cocky coach named Dolph Renwood.
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Danny Chatterton came up the street whistling a merry tune, while Don Scott lay under an apple-tree back of his father’s house, munching an apple and scowling blackly, although the September afternoon was pleasant and sunny enough to put any boy in an agreeable humor. Judging by the sour expression on Don’s face one might never have fancied the half-devoured apple in his hand was sweet.
Spying the boy beneath the tree, Danny stopped, leaned on the fence, and called:
“Hullo, Scotty! What you dud-dud-dud-doing?”
“Can’t you see?” growled the boy addressed. “I’m eating an apple.”
“Dud-does it hu-hurt ye much?” grinned the cheerful lad at the fence. “What do you eat it for if it makes you fur-fur-feel so bad?”
[10]Don’s answer to this bit of persiflage was a still blacker scowl and sullen silence. Danny kicked the fence and whistled, a twinkle in his eyes.
“Say, gimme an apple,” he entreated. “You’ll mum-mum-mum-make yourself sus-sick trying to eat the ho-ho-whole of ’em.”
The boy under the tree picked up an apple and threw it viciously at the sarcastic fellow outside the fence, who caught it with one hand, crying:
Then he gave the apple a wipe on his jacket and took a trial bite out of it, his manner being suspicious till he had tested it, upon which his face betrayed satisfaction and he immediately took a still larger bite.
Contents
- 01Publisher’s Note
- 02Chapter I. A Boy with a Temper.
- 03Chapter II. Another Boy.
- 04Chapter III. The Football Field.
- 05Chapter IV. Don Leaves the Team.
- 06Chapter V. An Unfortunate Compact.
- 07Chapter VI. Words of Wisdom.
- 08Chapter VII. A Battle in a Heart.
- 09Chapter VIII. In the Club-Room.
- 10Chapter IX. A Struggle in the Dark.
- 11Chapter X. The Tell-Tale Knife.
- 12Chapter XI. Signs of Guilt.
- 13Chapter XII. Who Did It?
- 14Chapter XIII. Don Accuses Renwood.
- 15Chapter XIV. Charge and Countercharge.
- 16Chapter XV. In the Autumn Woods.
- 17Chapter XVI. Tempter and Tempted.
- 18Chapter XVII. The Tackling Machine.
- 19Chapter XVIII. Trouble on the Team.
- 20Chapter XIX. The Net of Deception.
- 21Chapter XX. While the Game Was Played.
- 22Chapter XXI. Bentley Tells How It Happened.
- 23Chapter XXII. The Doctor’s Story.
- 24Chapter XXIII. The Defeated Eleven.
- 25Chapter XXIV. Fanning the Flames.
- 26Chapter XXV. Don Decides to Play.
- 27Chapter XXVI. The Proof Against Renwood.
- 28Chapter XXVII. The Forgery Discovered.
- 29Chapter XXVIII. Breaking the Fetters.
- 30Chapter XXIX. On the Gridiron.
- 31Chapter XXX. The First Half.
- 32Chapter XXXI. The Second Half.
- 33Chapter XXXII. The Finish and the Blow.
- 34Chapter XXXIII. The Confession.
- 35Chapter XXXIV. Repentance and Victory.
About this edition
- Author
- Burt L. Standish
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 229 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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