Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football

by Roger R. Tamte

Walter Camp made the development of football--indeed, its very creation--his lifelong mission. From his days as a college athlete, Camp's love of the game and dedication to its future put it on the course that would allow it to seize the passions of the nation. Roger R. Tamte tells the engrossing but forgotten life story of Walter Camp, the man contemporaries called the father of American football. He charts Camp's leadership as American players moved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252041615
• ISBN13: 9780252041617
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"