"Football field" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a November Thanksgiving day, the great game of the season was played on the Sunrise football field, which all the Walnut Valley folks came forth ...
— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter
... in the old days, smashed his way through the opposing line of blue-jerseyed giants on the football field, and as he now plowed through the laurel and rhododendron, so had he won his way to the forefront of the younger generation of his profession until, at the age of thirty-five, he had become recognized as one of the most able ...
— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson
... nodded affably to several of his fellows of the football field, but his hand crept out from underneath the shrouding cape, palm down, signalling caution. "Orders—some kind," he answered in tones just loud enough to be heard by those nearest him. "Seen the old man anywhere? The general wants him," ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King
... year, and was therefore added to our vocabulary. They are noisy, vicious, unaccommodating and aggravating to a degree. A lance-corporal of the Battalion of great girth and tank-like prowess in the football field was always ready to bear bitter testimony to their man-eating proclivities, and no doubt still regards it as a distinct intervention of Providence that he lost no more than the seat ...
— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison
... remembered, had gone in for every kind of athletic sport. When he had first arrived at a strange boarding school he had refused, with a heedless laugh, to say whether he could play or not. Victor did not even deign to go near the football field for a month. But ten minutes before the Match of the year commenced he suddenly made up his mind to play. During the first half of the game Victor had "laid low"; he was waiting. Then his eyes flashed, and his lithe, active figure flashed up the field ...
— War and the Weird • Forbes Phillips |
