“FOOTBALL HAS NOW BEEN RAISED TO A DEFINITE SCIENCE”
(FOOTBALL) STAGG, Amos Alonzo and WILLIAMS, Henry L. A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges. Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1893. 12mo, original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth recased.
Scarce first edition of one of the first and most important works on American football, with numerous play diagrams.
Amos Alonzo Stagg “was the most compelling single force for the tactical growth and ethical elevation of the game” (DAB). Co-author Williams was a legendary coach at the University of Minnesota and another of the game’s great innovators.
A few instances of foxing, cloth with expert repairs. An extremely good copy.