Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: Through the 1890/91 Season

by Melvin I. Smith


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Softcover
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£12.40
Hardcover
£33.99
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Softcover
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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 12/11/2008

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 724
ISBN : 9781434362469
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 724
ISBN : 9781434362476

About the Book

This book is a revision/extension to the author's first book. With the recent availability of digitized old newspapers and magazines, much more foot ball data have been found for the 1800s. The games are again divided into three basic forms of foot ball; but now are listed under the actual style names used at the times played. They are the Kicking Game/Association Football (now soccer), Carrying Game/Boston Rules Game/American Rugby Game/ English Rugby Union (now rugby) and the Ball-Control Game/American Collegiate Game/American Rugby Football (now football).Within these basic forms, the games are listed under colleges, independent clubs and high schools. There is a chapter on leagues/conferences and the appendices contain team histories with the types of foot ball played.  


About the Author

Mel Smith is a retired meteorologist. He co-authored and authored many technical reports while in that field. He became interested about 45 years ago in both accepted and unaccepted games of early foot ball. Because of the inception of digitized old newspapers and magazines on the internet during the last five years, much more data became available. Therefore, this book is a revision/extension to his earlier book. He is a member of the College Football Historical Society and the Professional Football Research Association.