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Of course you do. Did I tell you to stop in the middle of the field? What would Muggledorfer do to you if you stopped there?" "Yu ent tal me to go on," said Ole sullenly. "Aye go on, Aye gass, pooty qveek den." "You bet you'll go on," said Bost. "Now, look here, you sausage material, to-morrow you play fullback. You stop everything that comes at you from the other side. Hear?
Suddenly he realized that the football man was not answering questions, that the weight on his own shoulder was growing heavier. He glanced up into Ashley's face; there was an absent look in the man's eyes. "Fred!" whispered Diemann sharply in his ear. "Yes?" answered the fullback; then he shook himself and said: "It's chilly, Die, I'm wet. Let's get in."
The mainmast was consecrated to the left half, and the mizzen to the fullback. "In one game our lack of proper uniform worked to our advantage. I was on the sick list and had turned my suit over to a substitute. I braved the doctor's disapproval and went into the game in a pair of long working trousers and a blue flannel shirt.
Panting, all but fainting, Dick was over the enemy's goal line and he had the ball down. When Dave had emerged from that fruitless clumping he had a broad grin on his face. He saw that while Dick was not yet over the goal line, only the fullback was in the way and the fullback was no match for Dick in the matter of speed. Then the yells told the rest. Back came the ball.
But his eyes, agate gray and flecked with the green of the "moss" variety, were the real touchstones of his character, and they belied the stern lines of his mouth and chin and spoke eloquently of a warm, kindly heart within the powerful body, a body which, to the city dweller, suggested the fullback on a football team.
Snap it; snap it. Great Scott! Say, Hogboom, come here. When you get that ball, don't think we gave it to you to nurse. You're supposed to start the same day with the line. We give you that ball to take forward. Have you got to get a legal permit to start those legs of yours? You'd make a good vault to store footballs in, but you're too stationary for a fullback.
Diemann sat beside him, and Lyman and Dr. Forest stood by the window. The substitute fullback sat up. "I felt faint just then," he said. "I couldn't help it; you know about it, Diemann." He looked at the other men. "Did they get it over?" he asked. Lyman ran across the room. "Tom, old man," he said, choking, "you won it for us, and you'll never be forgotten, you and your run!"
"You certainly surprise me, Adelaide," said Mollie, "but I'm glad to hear that Bob's father has waked up at last to understand just what such things mean in a civilized, up-to-date community like Chester. Old things have passed away, it seems, and everybody who has any sense will get on the band wagon before he finds himself lonesome. But that doesn't ease my mind about our big fullback."
On the other hand, I can see in my mind's eye to-day, as clearly as I did during the game, a punt by Sheppard Homans, the Princeton fullback, which started over the battling lines into Pennsylvania territory, slowed up, hung for an instant in the air and then was swept back to a point approximating the line from where it started.
During that first season, two years ago, he had come to know and like Fred Blake. Later, the fullback took Diemann's course in Psychology, and to the elder man's gratification, developed a passion for the subject. The instructor recognized the quality of the athlete's mind, and before long the two were working together, reading and discussing along the line of the teacher's special interest.
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