Touchdown Pass (Chip Hilton Sports Series)

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Summary: Chip Hilton
Review: I rated this book five stars because it is written well.
The book is about a high school football player named Chip Hilton. He is a sophomore who played fullback and now the team has a another fullback meaning they don't need him in that position. So, Chip becomes the new quarterback. The regular quarterback is from another side of town and is mad at Chip for taking his job. Then all the teamates from that side of town start to hate Chip creating a lockeroom fued.
Finally, the team starts to like Chip and they make the playoffs.

Then after winning two playoff games Chip misses the bus and gets a ride with someone he knows and they crash breaking Chip's ankle so, during the championship he has to sit but he calls the winning play.

The main lesson is good sportsmanship.

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Summary: Good Book!
Review: I thought this book was one of the best books in the Chip Hilton Sports Series! I have read almost the entire series, and trust me, this one is GREAT comparing to a lot of the other super stories in the series.

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Summary: First in a series of excellent sports novels for children.
Review: Touchdown Pass is the first of 23 Chip Hilton sports novels. Originally published in 1948, it retains much of the homey goodness of that era. While this first in the series is about fottball, in the subsequent 22 novels, Chip and his chums take on basketball and baseball. This is a quaint adventure, intended for children but a pleasant read and reread for fans of all ages. The author was also a famous basketball coach of the fifties, also author to many non-fiction books on basketball techniques and coaching.

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Summary: Why mess with the original?
Review: When I was a kid, I read all the Chip Hilton books I could find as often as I could. I never got sick of the books, even when it got to a point where I had read them so many times I knew the stories by heart.

About 10 years ago, I decided to hunt for the whole collection and read them all. Some of the later books in the series were pretty rare and expensive, but I've enjoyed reading them all again (and some of them for the first time).

A year or two ago, I heard that an unfinished book (Fiery Fullback) was being published. It had been finished by Claire Bee's daughter and her husband. The book was a huge disappointment.

Now I see that they have rewritten all of the other books too, and I would strongly recommend searching for the originals (the ones written by Claire Bee, not the ones by Claire Bee, et al).

Here are the problems I have with the rewrites:

1. They have tried to update the books, to make them current. This didn't work in Fiery Fullback, where the football team still played under the old rules, with outdated strategies, but the kids used personal computers, watched big screen TVs, etc.

2. In the original books we read about Chip going to church from time to time, and he lived his life as a good Christian, but it wasn't so blatant. The new books will be enjoyed by born-again Christians, but to the rest of us, it's a little too blatant.

3. The original books were great and there's no reason to fix them.

I didn't care for the rewrites, but couldn't give Chip Hilton one star. If you want to read these books about sports and good sportsmanship, great. (...)