Won in the Ninth

CHAPTER ITHE WINTER TERM. “Eyah! Eyah! Hughie rah-rah.� A wiry red-haired boy about twenty-three years old swung lightly from the train with a big valise in his hand into a crowd of college boys in caps and heavy ulsters. They gathered round him at once and while one crowd took charge of his valise he was lifted on to the shoulders of a half dozen fellows and carried through the streets to his rooms in Elihu Dormitory. In a twinkling his rooms and the halls outside were blocked with the lads of Lowell who had come to welcome the most popular boy in school Hughie Jenkins.It was the day of the opening of the winter term of the University. Hughie Jenkins had been the successful manager for three years of the College Baseball team and on the Thanksgiving Day previous Hughie as Captain of the Football Eleven with the help of the other members of the team had won the College Championship for the first time in five years.The boys of Lowell University had never been[2] very successful in football against their old rivals at Jefferson and the fellows were so chock-full of enthusiasm over it that they had not yet had enough opportunity to satisfy it. As each of the members of the team had arrived he had been welcomed in much the same way but the great welcome was of course given to “good old Hughie� as they called him and now that he was with them again it was possible taking the boys’ view of it for the work of the University to go on.