Walter Camp American Football 1891

Title: American Football
Author: Camp, Walter
Description: viii, [2], 175 + [3] ad pp. With 31 portrait plates, most from photographs, of famous footballers. 6½x4¼, original blue cloth decorated in gilt & colors, lettering in gilt. First Edition.The technique of America football expounded by one of its founding fathers, who is credited with creating the "fourth down rule," the "gridiron" patterns, and lifting the prohibition against tackling below the waist. There are chapters devoted to English and American Rugby, the End Rusher, the Tackle, the Guard, The Centre, or Snap-Back, the Quarter-Back, Training, etc. The portraits are of notable football players from those three powerhouses, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, including such luminaries as William W. "Pudge" Heffelfinger (Yale 1888-1891, the first "pulling guard"), Hector Cowan of Princeton, Harvard's D.S. Dean, etc.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1891

Some rippling to cloth, dampstain to lower edge; else very good.