The Story of Football

by Robert Leckie

Book Overview

Traces the history of football in the United States from the first intercollegiate game in 1869 to the most current Super Bowl game. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039481679X
• ISBN13: 9780394816791
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting Anecdotes And Splendid Action Photos

THE STORY OF FOOTBALL is a history of football since its beginnings in the United States after the Civil War until this book's publication about one hundred years later. It traces the evolution of both the college and professional branches of the sport.Leckie ranges far and wide as he gives particular attention to such gridiron notables as Walter Camp, Pudge Heffelfinger, Fielding Yost, Gil Dobie, Percy Haughton, Charles Brickley, Jim Thorpe, Glenn Warner, Bronko Nagurski, Elmer Layden, Byron White, Doc Blanchard, Glenn Davis, Bart Starr, Bud Wilkinson, Red Grange, Roger Staubach and many more. The book is filled with an abundance of interesting anecdotes and splendid action photos.