Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football /
"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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana, Illinois :
University of Illinois Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.