I decided that The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session should meet every night. Part of the tradition me and Gene had to jump first before everyone else because we were the founders of this new club. After we had jumped then the rest of the club could join in. I loved sports and never thought anything bad could ever happen in them. I hated the summer athletic schedule, and out of all they had badminton which was stupid. However, I liked having the playing fields all to ourselves since the seniors were all off training for the war in case they were to be drafted. Then I found a leather ball and thought that it would be much better if we just made up our own sport instead. We thought it should have something to do with the war like blitzkrieg ball, but then settled on blitzball. We started playing the game just making up the rules as we went along, not knowing exactly what we were doing but it still seemed to work out nicely. I remember one time I beat the school record in swimming. I never did swimming as a sport but I just thought that I would try to beat the record, not for it to count just to see if I could do it. Gene thought that we should tell somebody and have my name put up, but I convinced him not to.
The badminton racket is because the original sport the boys were supposed to play was badminton.
The Leather Medicine ball was the ball they all played with when they created the game blitzball.
"I have a feeling that I can swim faster than A. Hopkins Parker." - page 34 This is when finney decides that the record is an insult to the school because no one had beaten the record in a long time so he wants to try it.
"You don't use your arms when you knock the ball carrier down." - page 29 Finney starts to make rules as everyone is playing this new game called blitzball.
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