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The First Crusade Against Football
American football injuries and brutality from 1827 to 1898
Daughters of the Lost Century
Daughters of the Lost Century is an action-packed pictorial anthology of women's sports featuring more than 100 rare articles and 1,000 lively illustrations originally published between 1849 and 1909, an overlooked era of American sports history. This fascinating compilation from "The Lost Century of Sports Collection" provides valuable insight about the origins and development of women's sports during the Victorian era and the social ramifications of the athletic New Woman as reported by the media at the time. The subject is enlivened by the vibrant energy of the women athletes in the illustrations, the sheer vastness of the collection, and the surprising variety of sports engaged in during...
The Lost Century of American Football
For the first time, hundreds of rare historical articles are teamed with hundreds of vintage illustrations to portray the birth and growth of America's most popular sport. The story is told through fascinating contemporary accounts from over 100 source publications, allowing modern readers to share the 19th century football fan's experience of the game as it was reported by the media at the time. Multiple perspectives bring the era to life as we follow football chronologically from its primitive roots as a mob game in the early 1800s, through the Civil War years and the rise of college rivalries, to the game's technical flourishing in 1900. We see how football was originally played, how it l...
Walter Camp in Print, from 1884 to 1894
A portfolio of rare articles by the first football coach & father of the American game.
The First Crusade Against Football
The First Crusade Against Football is a fully-indexed 600-page time capsule of articles and images from 1827 to 1898 during the first major crisis in American football based on its dangers and brutality. Football has been a violent and sometimes brutal sport since it began in the 19th century. As the game grew and expanded across the country, more and more young men were injured, crippled, and killed. In response to the public outcry against the sport and college authorities who sought to ban it, the founders of football sought to defend and reform the sport. Today football is again under attack due to a string of serious injuries and damaging medical reports. Headlines decry a drop in footb...
Classic Football Art
You've never seen football like this before! The largest collection of 19th century football art ever published -- Hundreds of illustrations. This visual time capsule reveals how football began and evolved, and how most Americans were introduced to the game before the advent of action photography. Illustrators include Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, A.B. Frost, Edward Penfield, I.R. Wiles, W.T. Smedley, Charles J. Taylor, and many other talented artists. Without these works of art, we would have no visual record of the early American game. The 8.5 x 11 inch art book includes a chronological Table of Contents and a full Index with dozens of source publications. The images were scanned from original sources and restored by The Lost Century of Sports Collection. Other football books in The Lost Century of Sports Collection include The Lost Century of American Football, The American Football Trilogy, The First Decade of College Football, Football Linemen, and Walter Camp in Print.
The First Decade of Women's Basketball
Featuring over 200 articles and 125 illustrations, "The Lost Century of Women's Basketball" is a time capsule of media reports from the birth of women's basketball in the 19th century. High school, college, and athletic club teams played in leagues and competed in tournaments long before the modern era of women's sports. After a wild first decade, this brief flourishing of women's basketball was tamped down by social pressure and the wide-open full-court game was tamed by a partitioned court and restrictive rules that remained intact until the passage of Title IX in 1972. This volume includes coverage of Eastern women's college teams at Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, Cornell and Bryn Mawr, the fi...
The First Decade of College Football
More than 300 newspaper articles from 25 states, published from 1869 to 1879, describe the first decade of college football, commencing with the first intercollegiate game and continuing through the playing days of Walter Camp. This is how the game began, as reported by the press, while sportswriters were still honing football jargon. Includes a chronological Table of Contents and a complete Index. States include: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin. Other football books in The Lost Century of Sports Collection include The Lost Century of American Football, Classic Football Art, Walter Camp in Print, Football Linemen, and The American Football Trilogy.
Adventure Seekers
This volume of the Sports She Wrote series is an adrenaline rush through daring women adventurers' exploits, featuring 46 articles of bravery and audacity (114,000 words). From exhilarating hot-air balloon flights to death-defying circus acts, these women push boundaries and defy norms. Eleven articles showcase hair-raising feats, while fourteen narratives recount the Alaska Klondike Gold Rush, revealing tales of survival amid harsh conditions. Elizabeth Taylor's ten articles detail Arctic Circle expeditions, while global perspectives explore traditional sports from Italy to Samoa. These stories unveil the indomitable human spirit and the pursuit of adventure against all odds, offering a rich tapestry of women's historical engagement in daring pursuits during the Victorian Era. Sports She Wrote is a 31-volume time-capsule of primary documents written by more than 400 women in the 19th century.
The Mysterious Birth of the Curve Ball and the Art of Pitching
The art of pitching was born when the curve ball was invented. As the articles in this volume attest, no one can prove who threw the first curve ball. Many skeptics initially disputed whether it was real or an optical illusion. This book is a walk through history as contemporary writers explore the mysteries of the curve ball and the pitchers who invented and perfected it. Articles in this volume describe the strategy involved in moving the pitching distance, the advent of three strikes, the catcher flashing signals to the pitcher, opponents stealing the catcher's signs with the aid of a telescope, the hidden-ball trick, the invention of a pitching machine that could throw curve balls, and the suggestion that inventing an umpiring machine would also be a desirable advancement for the game. This time capsule contains over 50 articles and 100 illustrations published from 1869 to 1921, exploring the curve ball and the art of pitching. Anyone interested in baseball will enjoy this book from the Lost Century of Sports Collection.
