My father went to Moses Brown and played football, basketball, and baseball there. He will enjoy reading this. After Moses Brown, he went to Brown and played football and baseball there, with a 2.5-year interruption for the war in Korea.
The Olmsted Archives on Flickr have a few documents relating to Moses Brown, dated 1911 and 1926. It doesn't explicitly show a football field, but one might assume it was inside the track or on the "Big Boys Playfields".
Playbooks such as this one show that even at this relatively early date (45 years since its start) the game had a fair amount of sophistication. It awaited the flowering of the forward pass. I refer everyone to Percy Haughton's 1923 book, "Football and How to Watch It," which holds up brilliantly a century later.
My father went to Moses Brown and played football, basketball, and baseball there. He will enjoy reading this. After Moses Brown, he went to Brown and played football and baseball there, with a 2.5-year interruption for the war in Korea.
That's great. I hope he enjoys the article. Hopefully, they updated the playbook by the time he arrived.
The Olmsted Archives on Flickr have a few documents relating to Moses Brown, dated 1911 and 1926. It doesn't explicitly show a football field, but one might assume it was inside the track or on the "Big Boys Playfields".
I'll take a look. Thanks,
Playbooks such as this one show that even at this relatively early date (45 years since its start) the game had a fair amount of sophistication. It awaited the flowering of the forward pass. I refer everyone to Percy Haughton's 1923 book, "Football and How to Watch It," which holds up brilliantly a century later.
Good point about the sophistication. I have Haughton's book and will need to review it once again.