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Example sentences for "play football"

  • They didn't know how to play football at Duckingfield, whereas Blackhampton was the home of the game.

  • It was not that Henry Harper, even in these critical days, was wholly absorbed in the business of learning to play football.

  • It was entirely due to him that Henry Harper learned to play football, and had he not mastered the art, it is unlikely that he would ever have found the key to his life.

  • I do not want to play football; I do not like the game; I need the time for my study, so I will not play.

  • I'd like to remind you that you are not going to Brimfield Academy to play football or baseball, or to swim.

  • If I get another complaint about you this year I shall write Mr. Fernald to forbid you to play football or any other game until you show that you mean business.

  • What was the good of knowing how to play football if he wasn't to have a chance to use his knowledge?

  • I’ll be with you pretty soon, son, and we’ll show those red-legs how to play football!

  • Of course the reason wasn’t far to seek: a fellow can’t play football if he isn’t conditioned; and Russell realized that he was very far from conditioned.

  • The fact that it appeared to be a physical impossibility to play football on the second team and conduct the business of the Sign of the Football at one and the same time added to the complications.

  • When you're not even allowed to play football?

  • He said he'd only been forbidden to play football," so Bob Heriot reported to his sister.

  • I have an uncle," said Chase, "who used to play football a long time ago, when he was in college.

  • A fellow who is too lazy to play football or baseball or tennis or anything else and pretends the doctor won't let him is a pill.

  • If you can't play football, wave your arms and make a noise!

  • He hasn’t got the nerve to fight, nor even to play football.

  • A young girl was asked the question: "'If you were a mother and had a son, would you allow him to play football?

  • A Harvard guard made the remark after the third goal, "We came here to play football, not to play against phenomenal kicking.

  • He certainly loved to play football and he used to come out and play on the scrub team against the Princeton varsity.

  • It must be wonderful to play football," she was saying.

  • You'll have to play football a little better than he does.

  • He was free to play football, to take up the by-no-means considerable duties of the laundry agency, to make friends.

  • McNatt hasn't any more ambition to play football than I have to--to collect mushrooms!

  • But I'm not going to Kenly to play football!

  • As for faculty being lenient, well, maybe they might be, but you can bet being lenient won't let any of us play football!

  • So you fellows of the Central Grammar think you can play football, do you?

  • Surely we can do that, if we've got hustle enough in us to play football at all.

  • Then you wouldn't advise me to play football?

  • Did you ever get a chance to play football in New York?

  • Yet, with all this, studies had to be kept up to a high average, for no man on the "unset" list could hope to be permitted to play football.

  • On this paper each one of you will find laid down rules that should be burned into the memories of all young men who aspire to play football.

  • I'm half inclined to think that Bert Dodge has been leading the soreheads who sulk and won't play football in the same team with some of us common fellows," Dick laughed.

  • If he can't get about like the rest of us he's a great deal more contented, I believe, and if he can't play football he can show others how to.

  • I suppose he thinks I've got to play football here.

  • I'm not going to play football to please a cad like Frampton, or any other cad!

  • Think of a chap putting on his dress shirt to play football in," cried another.

  • Is that the way they taught you to play football at home?

  • I can't imagine how we ever got it into our heads that they could play football, anyway.

  • He didn't care to show any one how to play football.

  • We simply had to play football to keep from being bawled out.


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