XXIV THE DAY BEFORE THE BATTLE 309

XXV TOM TO THE RESCUE 323

XXVI AT THE END OF THE FIRST HALF 334

XXVII STEVE SMILES 346

XXVIII THE CHUMS READ A TELEGRAM 360

ILLUSTRATIONS

The "Forward Pass" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Steve slipped on the tiling and fell sidewise into the water
(page 166) 80

"Lift!" instructed the quarter-back. "Lift me up and yank my
feet out from under me! Use your weight and throw me back!" 178

It was Steve, Steve on his back, with only his head and
shoulders above the water 324

LEFT END EDWARDS

CHAPTER I

FATHERS AND SONS

"Dad, what does 'Mens sana in corpore sano' mean?"

Mr. Edwards slightly lowered his Sunday paper and over the top of it
frowned abstractedly at the boy on the window-seat. "Eh?" he asked.
"What was that?"

"'Mens sana in corpore sano,' sir."

"Oh!" Mr. Edwards blinked through his reading glasses and rustled the
paper. Finally, "For a boy who has studied as much Latin as you have,"
he said disapprovingly, "the question is extraordinary, to say the
least. I'd advise you to--hm--find your dictionary, Steve." And Mr.
Edwards again retired from sight.

Steve, cross-legged on the broad seat that filled the library bay, a
seat which commanded an uninterrupted view up and down the street,
smiled into the open pamphlet he held.

"He doesn't know," he said to himself with a chuckle. "It's something
about your mind and your body, though. Never mind." He idly fluttered
the leaves of the pamphlet and glanced out into the street to see if any
friends were in sight. But it was Sunday afternoon, and rainy, and the
wide, maple-bordered street, its neat artificial stone sidewalks
shimmering with moisture, was quite deserted. With a sigh Steve went
back to the pamphlet. It bore the inscription on the outer cover:
"Brimfield Academy," and, below, in parenthesis, "William Torrence
Foundation."

"What does 'William Torrence Foundation' mean, dad?" asked the boy.

Again Mr. Edwards lowered his paper, with a sigh. "It means, as you will
discover for yourself if you will take the trouble to read the
catalogue, that a man named William Torren