Left Guard Gilbert (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781604446180)

Ralph Henry Barbour (Also wrote as Richard Stillman Powell)(November 13, 1870 - February 19, 1944) was an American novelist, who wrote popular works of sports fiction for boys. Left Guard Gilbert is such a story. Excerpts: "HOLD up!" Coach Robey, coatless, vestless, hatless, his old flannel trousers held up as by a miracle with the aid of a leather strap scarcely deserving the name of belt, pushed his way through the first squad players. The Brimfield Head Coach was a wiry, medium-sized man of about thirty, with a deeply-tanned face from which sharp blue eyes looked out under whitish lashes that were a shade lighter than his eyebrows and two shades lighter than his sandy hair. As the afternoon was excessively hot, even for the twenty-first day of September and in proximity to Long Island Sound, Mr. George Robey's countenance was bathed in perspiration and the faded blue silk shirt was plastered to his body.

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour
ISBN-10: 1604446188
ISBN-13: 9781604446180
Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2012
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d