Word: laketown
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...mingled socially with the coaches and athletes of a small (1500 students) high school in Westchester, New York. According to an agreement with the school district, he changed the names of the school and the team members. The disguise is thin--back issues of The New York Times reveal "Laketown High" to be Yorktown High School, and "Coach Buddy Fowles" to be Head Coach Buddy Douds. Probably intentionally, the real names of both Laketown and Fowles are slipped into the book as apparent typographical errors...
...cocaine merchant--was too small to play football in high school. Fascinated with the world from which he was excluded, he played in the band, doing his best to remain marginally connected with the Saturday spectacles. A decade later, he slipped gracefully into the social lives of Laketown's athletes, drinking their beer and admiring their cheerleaders...
...LAKETOWN'S season, though not memorable, was interesting. After a respectable 1970 season (6-2), only two starters returned. The replacements were small and unspectacular. Local predictions were grim. But the Laketown Harvesters turned out to be hard-nosed and--more important--lucky, and eked out sex wins, equaling the previous year's record...
...Laketown games themselves are only minor parts of Team. More important is the "family" theme--the development of a group stake and an individual ethic of sacrifice. The prototypes that emerge on any team are there: the inspirational coach, the free spirits, the unskilled in ill-fitting uniforms and the infuriating naturals who merely don pads and look fast and mean. The varieties are universal. When the security of close-knit belonging ends so abruptly in November, the finality is like that of a best friend's death...
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