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1  Goin out for football next year.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23
2  It was the size of a football field.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24
3  He might have been watching a football game.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8
4  Jem in his old age had taken to his room with a stack of football magazines.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15
5  Jem's mind was occupied mostly with the vital statistics of every college football player in the nation.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11
6  He went out for football, but was too slender and too young yet to do anything but carry the team water buckets.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 26
7  The Methodists were trying to pay off their church mortgage, and had challenged the Baptists to a game of touch football.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10
8  Shooting on Sundays was prohibited, so Dill and I kicked Jem's football around the pasture for a while, which was no fun.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15
9  When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  Atticus had two yellow pencils for me and a football magazine for Jem, which I suppose was a silent reward for our first day's session with Mrs. Dubose.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11
11  Through the door I could see Jem on the sofa with a football magazine in front of his face, his head turning as if its pages contained a live tennis match.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14
12  Jem said he didn't even want to go, but he was unable to resist football in any form, and he stood gloomily on the sidelines with Atticus and me watching Cecil Jacobs's father make touchdowns for the Baptists.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10