Heading: (Sports)
Author: Stagg, A. Alonzo and Henry L. Williams
Title: A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges
Place Published: Hartford, CT
Publisher:The Case, Lookwood & Brainard Co.
Date Published: 1893
Description:

[2], 274 pp. Illustrated with diagrams of football plays throughout the text. 15.2x10.5 cm (6x4"), gilt-decorated blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Co-author Henry L. Williams (1869-1931) was head football coach for the University of Minnesota from 1900 to 1921 and still holds the highest winning percentage (.736) of any Gopher football coach. Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) is known as the father of modern American football. His innovations include: the huddle, the lateral pass, a man in motion, etc., as well as numerous designed plays. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach in the charter class of 1951. Also, influential in other sports, he developed basketball as a five-player sport (elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in its first group of inductees in 1959) and served as a coach with the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team in 1924.

Light wear and soiling to cloth, lettering on spine faded; textblock faintly toned, some pencil and ink marks to endpapers from previous owner, hinges cracked; about very good.