On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics
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Barbour Ralph Henry. On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics
CHAPTER I. THE WINNER OF THE MILE
CHAPTER II. A VISITING CARD
CHAPTER III. ON THE CINDERS
CHAPTER IV. HAL HAS AN IDEA
CHAPTER V “MR. PETER BURLEY, BLACKWATER, COL.”
CHAPTER VI “RIGHT GUARD BACK!”
CHAPTER VII “THE RANCH”
CHAPTER VIII. PETE’S CLUB TABLE
CHAPTER IX. THE DUCK HUNT
CHAPTER X. DINNER FOR TWO
CHAPTER XI. THE CAPSIZED BOAT
CHAPTER XII. TOMMY CORRECTS A REPORT
CHAPTER XIII. PETE WRITES HOME
CHAPTER XIV. HOCKEY – WITH VARIATIONS
CHAPTER XV. IN THE “CORRAL”
CHAPTER XVI. THE INDOOR MEETING
CHAPTER XVII. ALLAN LEAVES THE CLUB TABLE
CHAPTER XVIII. AN ALARM OF FIRE
CHAPTER XIX. PETE PUTS THE SHOT
CHAPTER XX. TRACK AND FIELD
CHAPTER XXI. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
CHAPTER XXII. A NEWSPAPER PARAGRAPH
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FRESHMAN GAME
CHAPTER XXIV “ON YOUR MARK!”
CHAPTER XXV. THE LAST EVENT
CHAPTER XXVI “VALE”
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When Allan Ware recovered enough to take an interest in things he found himself lying in the dressing-tent with some one – it afterward proved to be Harris – striving to draw a coat from under him. No one was paying any special attention to him, and the tent was filled with the hard breathing of the runners, who were now only intent upon getting into their clothes. Allan took a deep breath and obligingly rolled over so that Harris could have his coat. Then he sat up.
He had not fainted at the end of the race; it is very seldom that a runner loses consciousness, no matter how hard or prolonged the struggle has been. The collapse is produced by oppression of the chest, less frequently of the heart in particular, and the consequent difficulty of breathing is the most painful feature of it. Allan had been dimly aware from the moment he pitched into the throng until now of what had passed, but his interest in events had been slight; he knew that arms had reached out and saved him from falling and that some one – a very strong some one, evidently – had picked him up like a feather and carried him the short distance to the tent. Allan wondered, now that he could breathe again without exertion, who the fellow had been.
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“Couldn’t find my boots,” explained Hal Smiths, “so I put these over my slippers. Wait a minute and I’ll go along.”
They left the hall together and walked briskly toward Main Street. Allan and Hal Smiths had never been particularly intimate at Hillton, but as they were the only two fellows from that school in the freshman class, they had naturally enough felt drawn toward each other since they had reached Erskine. During the last week, however, Hal had been making friends fast, and as a consequence Allan had seen less of him. Hal had quite a reputation, gained during his last year at Hillton, as a full-back, and he was generally conceded to be certain of making the freshman football team, if not the varsity second. To-night Hal was full of football matters, and Allan let him talk on uninterruptedly until they had reached the corner. There:
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