Word: camped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Foot ball is beset by temptations which it behooves all its well-wishers to beware of, and no note of warning has been more opportunely raised than that by Walter Camp in Outing for December, anent its two most dangerous problems - "The Spectator and the Professional." In a brief article of some two pages and a half, Mr. Camp thoroughly analyzes the relation which the spectator and the professional bear to amateur athletics in general and foot ball in particular. He considers the spectator the bane to the success of well-intended athletic legislation because with spectators victory counts...
With regard to professionals, Mr. Camp utters in concluding his article some stirring words which every college man ought to take to heart: - "Many and subtle are the influences at work tending toward the breaking down the line which should ever divide the two classes. Sometimes it is a strapping young fellow who has a chance for a free education made for him on account of his athletic abilities. No money is given him, but his bills are somehow footed. And sometimes it is a fleet-footed foreigner who has an easy business place found for him in order that...
...article of chief interest to Harvard men in the November Outing is "Foot ball of 1891" by Walter Camp. A general history of the year's changes in the rules and of improvement in the game appears, the question of coaching is dwelt upon at some length, and an account is given of the development of the running game, as opposed to the kicking game. Towards the conclusion of his article, Mr. Camp indulges in a little prognostication, part of which it is worth while to quote. He says...
...reader of the above must remember two things - first, that its author, Walter Camp, is a Yale man of the Capt. Bob Cook school, and, secondly, that the article in question was probably written several weeks...
...American Foot Ball. Walter Camp. Harper & Bros., New York, 1891. For sale at Thurston...