The Anatomy of a Game: Football, the Rules, and the Men who Made the GameUniversity of Delaware Press, 1994 - 599 sivua "This is the first football history to chronicle year by year how playing rules developed the game. Football - a four-dimensional game of rushing, kicking, forward passing, and backward passing - has had more playing rule changes since its inception than any other sport. The Anatomy of a Game follows football rules from the game's European roots through its beginning in the United States to its position as the number-one spectator sport in the 1990s. Highlighted are details of the crisis years that changed the character of the game, with coaches and rules committee members the featured players. David M. Nelson, who served on the NCAA Rules Committee longer than Walter Camp, provides personal insight into all Rules Committee meetings since 1958, as well as an appendix - chronological and by rule - listing every change since 1876." "Ever since the first two human beings kicked, threw, or batted an object competitively, there have been playing rules. Games are mentioned in the Bible, and the Romans brought football's forerunner to Britain, from where it was exported to the United States. It was in the United States that college students decided to make their game rugby rather than soccer. Although the students invented United States football and made the first rules, their ruling power was eventually lost to the faculty, administrators, coaches, rules committees, and the NCAA." "Beginning as a brutal sport, football survived several crises before and after the turn of the century, eventually becoming respectable. The 1931 injury crisis split the high school and college rules and the same year the professionals went their own way, with rules largely based on spectator appeal." "Today the sport is a national treasure primarily because of its playing rules, over seven hundred in total, which make college football unique among the world's team sports. Moreover, football remains an American game, never having the same impact in other countries as do baseball and basketball." "Rules make the game, but people make the rules. Football survived the major crises that threatened the game because committee members adhered to the precepts that had governed football since its inception. The game began with an attempt to have a consistent code of justice, personal accountability, and equality. In some sense the playing rules are a type of moral precept that explains in the simplest terms what can and cannot be done. The Football Code, which first prefaced the rules in 1916, makes the game - more than any other sport - a moral one because it sets standards for coaching, playing, sportsmanship, and officiating."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 94
Sivu
... Walter Camp , pro- vides personal insight into all Rules Committee meetings since 1958 , as well as an appendix - chronological and by rule - listing every change since 1876 . Ever since the first two human beings kicked , threw , or ...
... Walter Camp , pro- vides personal insight into all Rules Committee meetings since 1958 , as well as an appendix - chronological and by rule - listing every change since 1876 . Ever since the first two human beings kicked , threw , or ...
Sivu 15
... Walter Camp , Tim Cohane , Amos Alonzo Stagg , Allison Danzig , Dr. L. H. Baker , and the NCAA Foot- ball Guide contributing editors , have documented the game's growth during its formative years . After the establishment of the ...
... Walter Camp , Tim Cohane , Amos Alonzo Stagg , Allison Danzig , Dr. L. H. Baker , and the NCAA Foot- ball Guide contributing editors , have documented the game's growth during its formative years . After the establishment of the ...
Sivu 19
... are worse things in life than a tumble on heather , And life is itself but a game at foot - ball . —Sir Walter Scott 1 Genesis to the Shaping of the Rules Genesis Human First Quarter: From the Old Testament to Air Power.
... are worse things in life than a tumble on heather , And life is itself but a game at foot - ball . —Sir Walter Scott 1 Genesis to the Shaping of the Rules Genesis Human First Quarter: From the Old Testament to Air Power.
Sivu 22
... Walter Camp and Lorin Deland quoted a French writer who visited England in the seventeenth century . The Frenchman saw a game , played with a ball the size of a head filled with air , that was both useful and charming . The skills were ...
... Walter Camp and Lorin Deland quoted a French writer who visited England in the seventeenth century . The Frenchman saw a game , played with a ball the size of a head filled with air , that was both useful and charming . The skills were ...
Sivu 23
... Walter Camp wrote about football at Rugby : The readers of " Tom Brown at Rugby " will remember the vivid , though somewhat exaggerated , description of the Rugby game , as given by East to the new arrival at the school , and how it was ...
... Walter Camp wrote about football at Rugby : The readers of " Tom Brown at Rugby " will remember the vivid , though somewhat exaggerated , description of the Rugby game , as given by East to the new arrival at the school , and how it was ...
Sisältö
9 | |
11 | |
13 | |
15 | |
19 | |
21 | |
The Birth of United States Football 18761887 | 33 |
Who Is Making the Rules? 18881896 | 63 |
The Road to Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust 19511957 | 253 |
Camp to Stagg to Crisler to Nelson 19581959 | 271 |
General Neyland in Command 19601962 | 294 |
Limited Substitution Is Dead 19631967 | 308 |
Grass Basketball and a Safer Game | 325 |
John Waldorfs Era 19681975 | 327 |
A Second Century of Football Rules 19761980 | 360 |
The Liberal Rules Decade 19811989 | 377 |
The Game Moves toward Its Day of Reckoning 18971905 | 79 |
The Aerial Game the Fourth Dimension | 103 |
The Takeoff 1906 | 105 |
Airborne 19071908 | 127 |
The Second Crisis 19091910 | 141 |
The Modern Era Arrives 19111918 | 154 |
The Roaring Twenties 19191928 | 172 |
The Great Depression to the Fifth Down 19291940 | 194 |
Unlimited Substitution to Recodification 19411947 | 218 |
Ten Rules but No Uniform Code 19481950 | 232 |
The Substitution Wars | 251 |
The Executive Committee Controls the Game 19901991 | 416 |
Epilogue | 431 |
Rule Changes by Year | 433 |
Evolution of American Collegiate Football | 491 |
Appendix 3 Rules Committees | 533 |
Notes | 563 |
575 | |
577 | |
581 | |
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
AFCA Amos Alonzo Stagg Athletic backward pass ball in play blocking Chairman cleats coaches college football defensive player deleted disqualification Division E. K. Hall eliminated end zone enforcement fair catch field goal fifteen yards fifteen-yard penalty five yards Football Rules Committee forward pass free kick Fritz Crisler fumble game clock game's goal line goalposts hands Harvard illegal inches injuries Intercollegiate kicker kicking team kickoff line of scrimmage Lou Little mandatory Member-at-Large mouth protector NCAA Football Rules neutral zone offensive officials offside onside opponent opponent's pass interference passer penalized permitted personal fouls placekick playing rules previous spot Princeton problem prohibited punt put in play put the ball recodification referee rule changes rulebook runner running safety score scrimmage kick season secretary side line signal snap snapper substitution rule tackle team area teammate time-out touchback touchdown U.S. Naval Academy University unlimited substitution unsportsmanlike vote Walter Camp William Yale
Suositut otteet
Sivu 24 - THIS STONE COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT OF WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS WHO WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR THE RULES OF FOOTBALL, AS PLAYED IN HIS TIME, FIRST TOOK THE BALL IN HIS ARMS AND RAN WITH IT, THUS ORIGINATING THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE RUGBY GAME AD 1823 This establishment of the running or Rugby game, as contrasted with the earlier, kicking game, had several important results.