[Rarebooks] FS: TOUCHDOWN! Signed by Amos Alonzo Stagg. Knute Rockne: "All football comes from Stagg"

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STAGG, Amos Alonzo & STOUT, Wesley Winans. TOUCHDOWN!. New  York:
Longmans,   Green  &  Co.  1927.   First  Edition.  Illustrated   with
photographs.  INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by Stagg: "To
Norris  L.  Tibbetts,/With  the  affectionate/regards  of/Amos  Alonzo
Stagg/November  27,  1927."  A  scarce early  inscription  before  his
writing  became shaky by one of the most important figures in American
sports.  Stagg,  the first to be elected to the Football Hall of  Fame
as  both  player and coach, was active in the sport until the  age  of
98.  He  is credited with originating more plays and  formations  than
any  other  man and, among other developments, is responsible for  the
forward  pass, the huddle, and numbered uniforms. Stagg also  invented
the  indoor batting cage and pioneered the headlong slide in baseball.
In  addition Stagg participated in the first public basketball game on
11  March  1892,  scoring  his  team's  only  basket,  and  the  first
intercollegiate  basketball game on 18 January 1896. He is said to  be
responsible  for the concept of five-man basketball. Of the Grand  Old
Man  of  the  Game, Knute Rockne once said, "All football  comes  from
Stagg."  Tibbets was pastor of Hyde Park Union Church in Chicago. Near
Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper.                          $850.00

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