Football Linemen: The Center, Guard, Tackle & Ends, Written by 3 Hall of Fame Coaches, Updated for Today's Game

Football Linemen: The Center, Guard, Tackle & Ends, Written by 3 Hall of Fame Coaches, Updated for Today's Game

Football Linemen: The Center, Guard, Tackle & Ends, Written by 3 Hall of Fame Coaches, Updated for Today's Game

Football Linemen: The Center, Guard, Tackle & Ends, Written by 3 Hall of Fame Coaches, Updated for Today's Game

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Overview

This volume contains the chapters about offensive and defensive linemen (center, guard, tackle, and end) from the first two major books ever written about modern football by three Hall of Fame coaches: “American Football,” by Walter Camp (1891), and “A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges,” by Amos Alonzo Stagg and Henry L. Williams (1893).

The original books were written during an era when players played the entire game without substitution. As a result, the descriptions of player positions mingled the responsibilities of what are now three separate and specialized offensive, defensive, and special teams platoons.

The offensive backs were also the defensive backs, punters, place-kickers, and kick-returners. The fullback was the primary kicker and also played defensive safety. The quarterback played a linebacker position on defense.

The offensive tackle also played defensive tackle and was sometimes a ball-carrier. The center, guards, and ends likewise played on both sides of the ball. This confusion is clarified in this updated volume, which separates and categorizes the responsibilities into platoons.

The Lost Century of Sports Collection publishes rare works from America’s sporting heritage. Other volumes include “The Lost Century of American Football,” “The American Football Trilogy,” and “Daughters of the Lost Century.”

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012818614
Publisher: The Lost Century of Sports Collection
Publication date: 07/01/2011
Series: The Lost Century of Sports Collection , #5
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 76 KB

About the Author

WALTER CAMP (1859-1925) was the first football coach and literally wrote the football rule book. He was Yale’s best player and captain in the 1870’s when the sport was played under Rugby rules. As the most prominent member of the football rules committee in the 1880’s, Camp introduced the line of scrimmage, the scoring system, the series of downs to retain the ball, and other fundamental features of the game. He was widely-known as “the Father of American Football” by the time his book was published. Many of his former players became pioneering coaches at colleges nationwide. Camp was a prolific writer and America’s most admired sports authority.

AMOS ALONZO STAGG (1862-1965) was a famous player for Walter Camp at Yale and was named to the first All-American team in 1889. In 1892 the University of Chicago hired Stagg as the nation’s first athletic director and football coach with faculty status. “The Grand Old Man of Football” was named Coach of the Year at age 81, and retired from coaching at age 97 with 314 career victories. Stagg was a standout pitcher in college and played in the first public basketball game in 1892. He is a member of both the football and basketball Hall of Fame.

HENRY L. WILLIAMS (1869-1931) was Stagg’s teammate on Walter Camp’s Yale squad. In 1891 he invented the “tackle-back” formation, coached West Point to its first victory against Annapolis, and set the world record in the 120 yard high hurdles. He later became the head football coach at the University of Minnesota for 22 years, during which he also maintained a medical practice. Dr. Williams was an influential member of the rules committee and an early proponent of the forward pass. Williams was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1951, along with Camp and Stagg.

The Lost Century of Sports Collection publishes rare works from America’s sporting heritage. Other volumes include “The Lost Century of American Football,” “The American Football Trilogy,” "11 Classic Football Articles by Walter Camp," "The First Women's College Basketball Game," "The Birth of Indiana Hoosiers Women's Basketball," and “Daughters of the Lost Century.”
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