The Football Boys of Lakeport

The Football Boys of Lakeport: fall is coming on and the excitement of the relatively new game of football is in the air. Of course, the Lakeport boys want to start a team, join a league, and win the championship. If only it were that easy. First, they have to contend with a newly-released-from prison all-around bounder, who plagues them throughout the book with thievery here and thievery there. Moreover, the rich, dissolute lad in town, Si Voup, wants to have a team and win the championship at any cost. And it looks for a while like he can meet the cost. The final game of the season pits two teams about equal in talent, and it could go either way.

Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was an American publisher and writer of books for children. He wrote 150 books himself, and created the most famous of the series books for juveniles, including the Rover Boys (1899 and after), Bobbsey Twins (1904), Tom Swift (1910), Hardy Boys (1927), and Nancy Drew (1930) series, among others.

Stratemeyer pioneered the technique of producing long-running, consistent series of books using a team of freelance authors to write standardised novels, which were published under a pen name owned by his company. Through his Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded in 1906, Stratemeyer produced short plot summaries for the novels in each series, which he sent to other writers who completed the story. Stratemeyer's series were also innovative in that they were intended purely as entertainment, with little of the moral lessons or educational intent found in most other popular fiction of the early twentieth century. Stratemeyer's series included, besides the famous ones, many that are now forgotten except by collectors: The Motor Boys (1906), Honey Bunch (1923), The Blythe Girls (1925) and Bomba the Jungle Boy (1926).

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