"Watch the man playing opposite you. . . It's the same with a center. Watch him, you guys." Coach Jack Rymer was a driver, a hero-maker, and the Pioneers were heading straight for their first undefeated year under his direction. The stadium was bulging with unaccustomed Saturday crowds and the old campus was charged with the electric possibilities of glory at last. But it was a glory that made Neil Kilbourn feel uneasy.

Neil, one of the Touchdown Twins approaching legendary fame at Bushnell, couldn't put his finger on the trouble at once, but when he took his attention from the man opposite to watch his own teammates and his own mirror-image brother, Ray, and sized up the real trouble, he concluded that the price of victory can be too high. Stiff courses, hardly mastered, were mysteriously becoming snaps at Bushnell, and the wrong kind of alumni were showing the wrong kind of enthusiasm for the team.

It takes rugged strength to be a good football player, but to be a real sportsman takes heart as well. Neil, used to bludgeoning his way through the opposition for winning touchdowns, finds it necessary to use all his powers of observation and attack to defeat the faceless adversary on his own team. Here is a roaring new college football story of victory over several kinds of opponents, by Joe Archibald, author of FALCONS TO THE FIGHT.

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