Pulp Fiction, 1943 · page 71 of 116
12 Sports Aces, January 1943 — page 71: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page shows the **opening of a short story** titled "The Touchdown Fool" by Dale Cochrane, appearing in what seems to be a sports-themed pulp magazine. The story concerns Randy Dolan, a football player nicknamed "Wrong-way Dolan" because he once scored a touchdown for the opposing team. The visible text introduces Dolan sitting on the bench during a Tyler-Hilton game when Coach King calls him in to play, despite his embarrassing past. The illustration depicts football players in action, showing the athletic subject matter.
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~The ‘Touchdown Fool By Dale Cochrane ” they called him, because he’d once scored a touchdown—for the enemy team. And when Randy Dolan tried to live that monicker down, he found his cleats tripped ap by his pigskin past. “Wrong-way Dol DY DOLAN was sitting on the scrub bench when a hard firm . hand gripped his shoulder. “Me?” Randy gulped, seeing it was Coach King. The young foetball mentor of the Tyler U eleven regarded Randy with a grim and steady gaze, Hig tight voice was bare- ly audible above the sereeching, yelling 69 fans who jam-packed the stands for this Tyler-Hilton game that was now in its last quarter. “You—in for Burton. Now hold ’em!” Randy Dolan swallowed kard and threw off the dark gray blanket in which he'd been draped. He began moving toward the field fastening his helmet as he did. He Gomichoo SJ COLI