Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man

by Julie Des Jardins

Book Overview

Americans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football," was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably the greatest amateur American athlete of his time.

In Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man, Julie Des Jardins chronicles the life of the clock company executive and self-made...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199925623
• ISBN13: 9780199925629
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"