D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | [A Hero Returns] | 1 |
| II. | [Captain and Coach] | 18 |
| III. | [A Boy on Crutches] | 30 |
| IV. | [“Only the Captain!”] | 45 |
| V. | [A Clash of Authority] | 60 |
| VI. | [Defeat] | 77 |
| VII. | [The Ath. Fac. Takes a Hand] | 93 |
| VIII. | [A New Leader is Chosen] | 105 |
| IX. | [Out of a Job] | 118 |
| X. | [The Handicaps] | 134 |
| XI. | [The Last Lap] | 147 |
| XII. | [Neil Intervenes] | 160 |
| XIII. | [Stuart Goes Out for the Team] | 170 |
| XIV. | [Wanted, a Kicker] | 183 |
| XV. | [The Conference] | 197 |
| XVI. | [Le Gette Explains] | 212 |
| XVII. | [Tasker Goes Over] | 226 |
| XVIII. | [In the Last Quarter] | 242 |
| XIX. | [Stuart Speaks His Mind] | 257 |
| XX. | [“For the Good of the Team”] | 275 |
FOR THE GOOD OF THE TEAM
CHAPTER I
A HERO RETURNS
Two boys met in the Grand Central Station in New York one warm afternoon in late September and, greeting each other, passed hurriedly toward the gate beyond which the Hartford Express waited. Each was good-looking, well-built, alert and self-possessed. But a few months separated their ages, although Jack Brewton had seen his eighteenth birthday and Stuart Harven had not. In the train, their bags at their feet, they plunged into conversation. While they had been close friends at Manning School, they had not met during vacation, nor had they corresponded. At seventeen and eighteen one is far too busy for letter writing, and, fortunately, friendship doesn’t demand it. There was, consequently, much to be said, and the journey to Safford was half over before the subject of summer adventures had been exhausted. Then Stuart gave the talk a new turn with the careless announcement:
“I had a letter from the new coach about a month ago.”