A follow up to my @Pigskin_Books thread from the other day: While I have a special fondness for books written by friends, the true gems of my collection are a few 100-year-old (or nearly so) titles by @cfbhall members.
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Percy Haughton wrote “Football, and How to Watch It” in 1922, a few years after ending his incredible nine-season, four-national-championship run at
@HarvardFootball.pic.twitter.com/ESpWwEX4iu
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Alex Weyand had been an All-American at
@WestPoint_USMA, wrestled in the 1920 Olympics, and was a career army officer when he wrote “American Football: Its History and Development” in 1926.pic.twitter.com/AS5pfmZEJg
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Bill Edwards, a lineman on
@Princeton’s 1898-99 championship teams, wrote “Football Days” in 1916. (My copy was once owned by the great sportswriter Hugh Fullerton.) Edwards briefly served as president of the fledgling Red Grange/CC Pyle American Football League.pic.twitter.com/h5ucV3mbdA
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Not on my shelf because they’re too fragile. But I have a special fondness for my century-old issues of “Spalding’s Official Foot Ball Guide,” edited, and largely written, by the Father of American Football, Walter Camp.pic.twitter.com/FATVoA8EDu
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I’ve got Spaulding Guides from 1917-1921, plus a “special” edition covering the Inter-Allied Games (an Olympic style series of meets and competitions, which included a football tournament won by the 89th Division, which I covered in “War Football”) held in Paris in 1919.pic.twitter.com/TzUmzKvlfH
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