[Gutenberg 48848] • Frank Armstrong at Queens

Fiction, Sports, HERO, ENTERPRISE, Football, Adventure, Heroic Rescue

Frank Armstrong, Drop Kicker

CHAPTER I. A NEW ENTERPRISE.

On a certain warm afternoon in the early part of July any one passing along the main street of the little summer resort of Seawall might have observed, had he chanced to glance seaward, a trim sloop riding easily at anchor, her milk-white mainsail swaying idly in the scarce-moving breeze. The water was like glass, excepting that here and there it was wrinkled for a moment by a puff of wind which passed instantly, leaving the mirror-like surface as before. Midway of the sloop's cockpit sat the Ancient Mariner himself, nodding. His back was braced against the gunwale and his pipe hung on his chest—a gentle-looking old man with a long, grizzled beard, taking his siesta as even Nature seemed to be taking hers that afternoon. His toil-worn hand hung over the gunwale, and, had one been near enough, the old man might have been heard to snore softly.

CONTENTS OF FRANK ARMSTRONG DROP KICKER

A New Enterprise

Failure and a Providential Rescue

Queen's Transportation Company

Burton's Arrival

The Water Carnival

An Old Rival's Stratagem

Coals of Fire

A Swim for Life

Saved

Profits of Queen's Ferry

The Hazers' Waterloo

Class Nines

Frank's Football Education

The Telegraph Company

Frank Taken to Warwick

The Warwick Game

Frank Saves the Game

Mrs. Bowser's Cat

In the Bell Tower

A Heavy Penalty

Gamma's Desperate Tactics

Saved by the Wires

End of Gamma Tau

CONTENTS OF FRANK ARMSTRONG AT QUEENS

Frank Encounters a Bully

An Afternoon of Football

Jimmy Gets in the Game

Frank Has a New Name

Captured by the Enemy

Hazing and the Water Cure

School Spirit and School Influences

Queen's Meets Barrows at Football

What Came of a Tumble

Frank Springs a Surprise

A Prospective Pupil

A Try-out on the Track

Learning to Run the Hundred

A Mysterious Appearance

Frank Wins Honors on the Track

Warwick Invades Queen's

The Great Football Game

Gamma Tau Receives a Shock

An Encounter with the Mystery

A Contest at the Gymnasium

The Loss of a Rink

A Heroic Rescue

A Challenge from Warwick

A Gift and a Theft

The Ice Carnival

CONTENTS OF FRANK ARMSTRONG AT COLLEGE

The Freshman Rush

A Brush with the Police

The Codfish Creates News

Making the Eleven

Frank Learns to Tackle the Dummy

The Great Freshman Battle

A Wreck at the Harbor

Fun at the Theater

A Jump in Baseball and the Result

The Try-outs at Cambridge

A Voyage to London

The Codfish Loses Himself

The Flying Machine to the Rescue

Progress and a Wreck

The Match at Queen's Club

Making the 'Varsity Nine

The Southern Trip

Football in Junior Year

The Harvard-Yale Game

How All Things Came Out at Last