[Rarebooks] FS: Knute Rockne: "All football comes from Stagg"

[Charles Agvent]

TOUCHDOWN!
STAGG, Amos Alonzo & STOUT, Wesley Winans
First Edition
Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper 
byStagg: "To Norris L. Tibbetts,/With the affectionate/regards of/Amos 
AlonzoStagg/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 withoriginating more plays and formations than any other man 
and, among other developments, is responsible for the forward pass, the 
huddle, and numbereduniforms. 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 GrandOld 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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