Left Guard Gilbert

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.