Title:
Walter Camp and the creation of American football / Roger R Tamte.
Author:
Tamte, Roger R., 1935- author.
Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Call Number:
GV939.C34 T36 2018
Abstract:
"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 patiently and gradually transformed the sport into the football we recognize today. In this freshly researched biography, Roger Tamte follows Camp from infancy to the meeting of the rules committee in 1903. That meeting established the modern game, including scoring, play ending after a tackle, resuming on opposite sides of a line of scrimmage, plays beginning with a snap to the quarterback, and a system of downs and yardage goals for retaining or losing possession. The incremental changes that Camp introduced and championed did not come easily. In addition to the usual resistance to change, he had to confront academic, press, and governmental complaints about the brutality of the game. As the popularity of college football drew more spectators, games needed larger stadiums. Camp had to address questions of eligibility, officiating, and scheduling. And he had a personal life and a professional business career to maintain. His was a busy life, and one worth telling"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780252041617
Physical Description:
xvi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
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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