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I told him I didn't like it but since I trusted him, I let him go. Around 12:30 that night I heard a knock at the door. It was Conrad and another boy. Conrad's friend asked me if I wanted to know why they were at our house. I told him that we had a rule of no questions. But he proceeded to tell me anyway. He said that two of the boys showed up with a cooler of beer, cigarettes and chewing tobacco. Almost all of the boys started to drink and smoke. He said that he just stood and watched as Conrad loaded up his equipment. The other boys asked him what he was doing and he told them that he was going home. When they asked why, Conrad replied,  I don't do these things, and I don't stay around it. The next day, I told Conrad that I was more proud of him because of the previous night than because of all the awards he had received and the great grades he made. I was proud of him because I knew that I could always trust him to do the right thing. <br>Conrad was looking good at football practice as his ninth grade year started, but the coach used the senior quarterback during the first two games. He was very disappointed, but did not give up. I was relieved, however, because I still questioned his ability to handle the varsity contact.<br>The third football game came, and the head coach decided that it might be good if the senior quarterback was moved to running back for a few plays. The coach decided to give Conrad one offensive series at the beginning of the game. Well, in five plays, we scored with Conrad running in the touchdown on an option play  his first varsity touchdown. Needless to say, the coach left Conrad in as quarterback the rest of the game. That night he passed for 220 yards and earned the starting varsity quarterback job. That season, Conrad passed for 780 yards and ended up seventh in all of Southeast Missouri in passing. <br>At every game, the other team saw the  Freshman Quarterback and was determined to  take him out. He took a lot of real hard hits, but he always bounced back up. He really could handle the contact well.<br>Conrad turned an ankle in basketball and rehabilitated. He returned and hurt his ankle again. The doctor said that he could not play anymore basketball that year, so he started throwing and running every day after school.<br>After football, Conrad unfortunately sustained an ankle injury and was prohibited by the doctor to continue the basketball season. Determined not to let that set him back he continued hard with his training and when track started Conrad was the fastest boy in the entire school. He was running the 110-meter high hurdles, the 300-meter intermediate hurdles, the 100-meter dash, and the 200-meter dash. I expected him to do well in the hurdles and to score a few points in the 100-meter dash. But at his first 6 meets, he got 1st in the 100-meter and was u