Walter Camp's Book of Foot-Ball

New York: Century Co., 1910.

Sold

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 363pp. Illustrated with photographs. Tan cloth, lettered in green, and illustrated in brown. Modest overall soiling on the boards, else near fine. Camp was the Coach of the Yale football team and probably did more than anyone else to popularize the game and to shape the rules as they now stand including cutting the number of players to 11 (from 15), instituting the quarterback position, creating a scrimmage to institute play (rather than a "scrum") and designing the "gridiron" pattern of the field. Additionally he was probably the first national figure to promote personal physical fitness, especially during the First World War. Camp turns his attention exclusively to football. A nicer than usual copy.

Item #454157

item image

Item #454157 Walter Camp's Book of Foot-Ball. Walter CAMP.