Walter Camp and the creation of American football /

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"No person was more responsible for converting English rugby into American football than Walter Camp (1859-1925). As a player at Yale, then a coach at Yale and Stanford, a sportswriter for Harper's Weekly and other major magazines, and an influential member of rules committees, he patientl...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tamte, Roger R., 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Temas:
Camp, Walter, > 1859-1925.
Camp, Walter, > 1859-1925
Football players > United States > Biography.
Football coaches > United States > Biography.
Sportswriters > United States > Biography.
Journalistes sportifs > États-Unis > Biographies.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Football.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Football coaches.
Football players.
Sportswriters.
United States.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Students' Game
  • Beginnings, Known and Unknown
  • Given a New Era
  • Officially Under Way
  • "You Must Do Something"
  • Making It Their Own
  • Captain
  • The Extracurriculum and Beyond
  • Fourth Year
  • Moving on, Ready or Not
  • Still under Construction
  • The Main Invention
  • Birth Year
  • Getting Noticed
  • Impossible to Ignore
  • Besides Medical School
  • Career Realities
  • Not So Easy After All
  • Writer, Teacher . . . Director?
  • "Having Waited in Vain"
  • Father of Football
  • The Game Established
  • An "American" Game of Football
  • Headquarters on Gill Street
  • Rivalry Demands Rules
  • Why American Football Grew
  • All-Americans
  • Author for an Expanding Game
  • Second Most Important Man in New Haven?
  • Whose Game Now?
  • It's Official: We Want to Win
  • "A Chief Charm of the Game"
  • "What Does Walter Think?"
  • The End of Student Rule Making
  • New Voices
  • Bigger and . . . ?
  • Critics and Defenders
  • Breakup
  • Failure Achieved
  • The Future Foreseen
  • Pax Intercollegiata
  • Striving for More
  • More than a Game
  • Officially a Yale Official
  • Not Done Yet
  • The New Game
  • "The Game I Have Worked So Hard For"
  • A President Involved
  • Tipping Point
  • Democracy in Action
  • Starting from Scratch
  • Football as We Know It
  • Besides Rule Making
  • Away with the Old
  • "I Will Give It Up"
  • Keeping the Nation Fit
  • Alternative Service
  • The Frankenstein of College Athletics
  • Unrecognized Legacy.

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