You see--well--I'm quarterback of thefootball team.
Then I seen him go out on the field an' kick a footballfrom one end to the other an' pass it back.
He was not quite as amazed to find that Lefty Foresman was one of the candidates for the football team as he might have been later when he knew how many students attended the university and how few, relatively, were athletes.
With his mind's eye, he played thefootball he would play--and the baseball.
My father is an alumnus and he'd put up five thousand a year, if necessary, to see you kept on the football team.
It seemed that he could not cross the campus without being hailed by a member of the football team and presented to another student.
Football is dangerous, but is even more popular than the other.
The people are preeminently religious, and prize-fighting and football are the sports of brutes; yet the two are most popular.
The English Cup, won by the Aston Villa Football Club last year, has been stolen.
Professionalism" and "Broken Time" Wanted the touch of a vigorous hand To keep the Amateur Football Band From the greedy clutch of the spirit of trade And speculation, alas!
Between boots and football a strong affinity exists; and it appears that a cordonnier, a member of the club, obtained a loan of the trophy, which he proudly placed in his shop window.
You would certainly have been in the football team next term; it is a nuisance altogether.
Bunnies Football Match, are a few among the many droll subjects illustrated in this amusing and original series.
RANG'ERS, a body of mounted troops: a name sometimes taken by clubs of football players, &c.
He became a member of the football eleven, pitcher on the freshman nine, president of his class.
The boys he had looked up to, even the wisest of the seniors, seemed to him very young indeed, and their football worries pitiably unimportant.
In spite of the difficulties of getting teams together, the football league has flourished, and to-day we had the great final match between Australians and the A.
Proudest of all was he of the fact that he had once spent a few days in Liverpool to play in a football match, which fact, he felt, bound him to his allies more than any of the forced ties of war.
Thanks to thefootball and the various other "tournaments," the canteen is becoming quite an important factor of the little colony out here.
The pancake bell is still rung in many places, and for some occult reason it is the season for some wild football games in the streets and lanes of several towns and villages.
At St. Ives on the Monday there is a grand hurling match, which resembles a Rugby football contest without the kicking of the ball, which is about the size of a cricket-ball, made of cork or light wood.
Jimmie had never watched football practice, so he had no conception of the efforts to which men could be goaded by "coaching".
You had a little squad, trained like a football team, with its own system of signals, its formations worked out by young heads put together at night.
The echoing and re-echoing makes a din before which the noise of a football game seems tame.
Right: Our football team has defeated every other team in the state.
Wrong: Our football team has downed every other team in the state.
The championship schedule for the Senior League of the New England Interscholastic Football Association was made out last week at a meeting of the Captains held at the B.
Football in the New York schools is slow in getting a start this fall.
The principal reasons advanced for opposing the plan were that the two schools had but one alumni association, one football and baseball team, and in their field day competed class against class rather than school against school.
Football to-day is a game for team-work, and the star player is a very rare bird indeed.
Reference to the Inter-City game suggests that in view of the three sets of football rules in vogue this fall, it will be advisable for committees from the N.
In the afternoon you find them playing football as blithely as boys, and those who are not playing stand round and chaff and applaud.
I saw as many games of football one day, in the course of a motor run behind the lines, as one would see on a Saturday afternoon in England.
A spirited match was in progress near our lines not long ago when a distracting succession of "Weary Willies" began to distribute themselves not very far from the football ground.
And here we have a third wonder," went on Pepper, pointing to the football captain.
Neither of the cronies had gone to the football game, having preferred to walk to a cabin in the woods, where they could smoke and play cards.
Dale Blackmore was at the head of the football eleven, and, as before, he organized a fine team.
The conflagration in the woods had rather broken up the anticipated celebration in honor of the football victory.
The first football game of the season was arranged to take place between Putnam Hall and an eleven from Cedarville called the Dauntless.
The latter was the hardest blow of all, for Ritter had hoped that Fall to make the football team.
As soon as Jack and Andy had put aside their football outfits, they joined Pepper and the Ford girls, and all went to meet Mr. Rossmore Ford, who had just arrived in his carriage.
Following the game with the Dauntless Club came several other football contests, and Putnam Hall won two games and lost one.
Girls make me tired when they are at a football game," put in the cadet named Brown.
Reff Ritter felt extra sore when the football eleven went out for practice.
He plays baseball all the spring, tennis all summer, football thruout the autumn, and what there is left of the year goes into ice hockey.
There is no more football for him, and no more ice hockey.
One plays football thru school and perhaps in college—eight years at the outside.
Sufficient to say that all sorts of matters, from the coming regatta to the opening of the football season, were discussed, and commented upon.
The weather was exceptionally warm that September, just right for rowing and a little too close for heavy football work, so in one way Randall had an advantage as regards her crews.
And it was not surprising when you consider that they had had considerable practice together, and had played baseball and football through several college seasons.
Yes, there isn't much time between now and the football season," agreed Frank.
Going back to football interests, in the fourth book, "The Winning Touchdown," there will be found many accounts of pigskin matters.
We can wallop you at football And at baseball beat the band!
The two coaches were fairly overworked, for by this time the first of the football squads was beginning to form.
You big football fellows always have the call on the little men in dancing.
I jogged Bill Graham and he stumbled down the field just bull-headed--he never did have much football sense.
The night of the football game, for example, he strayed into the annual pitched battle of noise and reproach at the Yellowstone between the California partisans and the Stanford fanatics.
War was to him a huge football game and he simply meant to get into the game.
Mr. Kean was behaving exactly as though he were at a football game.
Jim had delighted the little party by translating into his execrable French football terms to describe his idea of how the war should be conducted.
Sometimes a guest's arrival unwelcomed can not be avoided; if, for instance, a man invited for tennis week or a football or baseball game, arrives before the game is over but too late to join the others at the sport.
She sizes up the situation exactly as a boy might size up his own chances to "make" the crew or the football team.
He used to be on the Yalvard football team, perhaps you remember.
They have their special amusements, some of which seem cruel to people of refinement, but it may be said in their defense that football is not a popular game on the island.
The McCulloch and the Nanshan and Zafiro played in behind the heavy line like the backs of a football team.
Dana Osgood, the famous football player, formerly of the University of Pennsylvania.
But footballis not a college purpose; it is a college means.
When football or other forms of college sport are turned from being a method and a means into being ends in themselves the misfortune is lamentable.
Whichever side loses, it is the football which wins the game.
This plant has the form of a football and is so small that a million of its kind together would not make a mass as large as the head of a pin.
The poison in tobacco is believed to weaken the muscles so much that no man on a football team in any of our large colleges or universities is allowed to smoke or chew during the season.
This is the time to wait and have a look round: on one side floes the size of a football field, all jammed together, with their torn up edges showing their limits and where the pressure is taken.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "football" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
