Football: The American Intercollegiate Game

"FOOTBALL - The American Intercollegiate Game" by Parke H. Davis (member of the intercollegiate rules committee). 1911 1st edition, 1st printing (September); Charles Scribner's Sons; New York. The book is richly illustrated with wonderful black & white photographs throughout.

The contents are as follows: Football in Olden Time; The Beginning of the Modern Game; Early Football in America; The First Intercollegiate Game; Football in the 'Seventies; Football in the 'Eighties; Football in the 'Nineties; Football from 1900 to 1910; Army vs. Navy; Chicago vs. Wisconsin; Cornell vs. Pennsylvania; Dartmouth vs. Princeton; Harvard vs. Princeton; Harvard vs. Yale; Michigan vs. Pennsylvania; Minnesota vs. Wisconsin; Princeton vs. Yale; Eight Famous Games; Appendix.

From the author's Preface: "The football historian who essays to reproduce the battles of the gridiron is more than ordinarily handicapped by the insufficiency of the records. Football, unlike baseball, has not yet evolved the official scorer or reporter. The data of the games consist simply of the contemporaneous accounts in the college and public press. The peculiarities of football, the swift and confusing intricacy of its plays, the substitutions and sudden shifting of players make the work of the reporter excessively difficult and at times more or less inaccurate. The line-ups and descriptions of games contained in Part II of this book have necessarily been based upon these accounts. The details of play, however, have been submitted for correction to players who participated in the various games, and the lists of players likewise referred for verification to players and officials of the respective institutions, sot that, notwithstanding the difficulties, they are substantially accurate. More than this is impossible."

Condition:
There are some small, light stains on the covers and spine. Tiny cloth tears at the cover corners. Small cloth tears at the top and bottom edges of the spine. Bright gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. Nice interior - the text pages are mostly clean with only a few football teams/scores written in pen on pages 316 & 443, a small light smudge on page 2, and a tiny stain at the lower-outer corner tip of the title page. The front end paper has a name/date (1911) written in pen, and a thin 2" strip of paper remnant affixed at the inner edges by the spine. The tissue guard over the frontispiece is not present. Overall the book is in Good condition.