THE AMERICAN INTERCOLLEGIATE GAME BY PARKE H. DAVIS MEMBER OF THE INTERCOLLEGIATE RULES COMMITTEE ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1911 D3 PREFACE THE football historian who essays to reproduce the battles of the gridiron is more than ordinarily handicapped by the insufficiency of the records. Football, unlike baseball, has not yet evolved the official scorer or reporter. The data of the games consist simply of the contemporaneous accounts in the college and public press. The peculiarities of football, the swift and confusing intricacy of its plays, the substitutions and sudden shifting of players make the work of the reporter excessively difficult and at times more or less inaccurate. The line-ups and descriptions of games contained in Part II of this book have necessarily been based upon these accounts. The details of play, however, have been submitted for correction to players who participated in the various games, and the lists of players likewise referred for verification to players and officials of the respective institutions, so that, notwithstanding the difficulties, they are substantially accurate. More than this is impossible. To the many players an officials who have aided in assembling the data of these games a grateful acknowledgment of assistance is made. P. H. D. 222679 |