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Updated: June 11, 2025
If you and Ripley and a few others had gone over to the 'soreheads' it would have stiffened their backbone and nothing could have made it possible, this year, for Gridley High School to have an eleven that would represent all the best football that there is in the grand old school."
The fact of interest to Dick would have been that he appeared to enjoy the respect of at least ninety-five per cent. of the student body of the High School. Surely that percentage of popularity is enough for anyone. The fellow can get along without the approbation of a few "soreheads"!
I'm offering you that expensive experience free, gratis, for nothing." "Make a plain statement of the facts public," said Bob. "Publish them. Arouse public sentiment." Baker looked cynical. "Such attacks are ascribed to soreheads," said he, "and public sentiment isn't interested.
"Then I'm not worried about Gridley having a winning team this year," Dick answered. "By Jove, you had a lot to do with that, too, didn't you, Prescott?" cried Purcell. "You put it over the 'soreheads' so hard that we never heard from them again after we got started." "You helped there, also, Purcell.
Every student who honestly wanted to play football presented himself at the school gymnasium, on the afternoon named by Coach Morton for the call, including Drayne, who had been one of the original "soreheads." Drayne afterwards returned to the football fold, behaving with absurd childishness at the big Thanksgiving game, as our readers will recall.
"She had embezzled from Dalton & Company. What I did saved her from prison and you from disgrace, Kate. And now I am in the hole! Listen here! There's hell to pay in this state just now! The soreheads are banding together. A man has just offered to bet me big money that there's going to be an overturn in the State House departments.
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