Jackson Volney Scholz
Description
Jackson Scholz's stories are the real McCoy, for the author was a former Olympic champion himself. "I still recall," says Grantland Rice, "the sensational race he ran in the Olympic 200 meters. Scholz is a good writer as well as a champion runner."
Books
Backfield blues
On his return from Vietnam a college halfback finds he has lost interest in football.
The big mitt
When traded to a team that is having trouble with its game, a pinch hitter, worried about being forced to retire from baseball, takes on the duties of a bullpen catcher to increase his value.
Backfield buckaroo
A college sophomore who rides bucking broncos and plays football finds that a horse he cannot seem to master interferes with his performance on the gridiron.
Hot-corner Hank
The entire baseball world is shocked when the major league Quakers give a recently graduated college baseball star eight weeks to prove he is justified in demanding a major league contract.
Gridiron challenge
When Barney Bolt went to college, he was an amateur boxing champion. He was good and he knew it, but his fists only got him in trouble. Barney determined to live down his reputation as a pug by going out for football. Yet Kip Slade, a star player, had it in for him. Hackled and insulted, Barney kept his temper through a grudge fight and a fake initiation -- until the explosive night before the game.
Fielder from nowhere
Ken gets on the team by good playing but he has a secret to hide and when his past catches up with him, it threatens to ruin his game.
Fullback fever
A successful college football player is persuaded to run for student president but finds the campaign interferes with his performance on the playing field.
The football rebels
Unable to make the varsity football team at Midwestern University, freshman Clint Martin decides to buck the athletic organization by starting his own informal team made up of any students who want to play football.
Batter up
As he stands at bat for the first time for his Little League baseball team, a young boy reflects about all the effort it took to get to where he is now.
Rookie quarterback
A high school dropout returns from the Navy, revives his dedication to football, and is inspired to secure his future by using his academic as well as athletic abilities.