Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-08
NEW FOOTBALL GUIDE
IS MUCH IMPROVED
ance-Contains Many Additional
Features for Followers of
the Game

Edited as in previous years by Wal
ter Camp, the leading authority on the
game, Spaldings official football guide
for the coming season has made its
appearance. 1t is a volume of 320
pages, and is replete with a great
amount of information concerning the
national autumn sport. The official
rules, revised for the coming season,
form the chief feature of the book, in
addition to which are chapters on the
All-American team and review of the
season of 1907 by Mr.. Camp; All-Amer-
lea selections by leading newspapers
throughout the country; representative
teams and their work in 1907, by Mr.
Camp; middle states football, by
George Orton; football in New Eng
land, by j. b. Pendleton; middle west
ern football, by James M. Sheldon;
football in the southwest, by Myron
w. Townsend; southern intercollegiate
football, by Dan e. McGugin; football
in the Rocky mountain region, by j.
L. Garland; football in the Pacific
northwest, by c. N. Macarthur; football
in Western Pennsylvania. by Edward
M. Thierry; football in Ohio, by x. G..
Scott; football in Kentucky, by j..
White Guyn: football in Illinois. by r..
p Holderby: football in the Missouri
valley, by ]. G. Masker; football in
South Carolina, by Simon Fogarty, jr.
football in California, by Walter Hem
pei: football in Western New York, by
r. B. Lawrence; interscholastic football
in Central New York, by II. N. Hen
derson: Colorado interscholastic foot
ball, by Pyke Johnston; football in the
Philippines, by Edward Bowditch, jr.
The records include the games played
by all the leading colleges and schools
during the past season and the scores
of the annual games between the larg-
he fV1fr n
Rugby football.
very interesting feature is the list
of captains with position played),
coaches and managers Of the leading
college teams, nearly two hundred in
stitutions being so catalogued.
The schedule of college games for
the coming year is formidable list,
dates for one thousand separate events
being already set
The final chapter in the book is the
officials list of the American intercol-
legiate football rules committee, as
complied by the central board on Of
ficiats, of which Prof. James A. Bah
bitt of Haverford is chairman; in
cluded with which is the western list
as approved by the intercollegiate con-
ference and the southern list.
THE Illustrations are UP to the usual
hieh standard of previous years and
form a really remarkable collection of
football players about one 5undrea
pages being devoted to reproductions
Of ali the leading college, high school
and athletic club teams Of the. coun-
try, embracing over 1000 individual
players.
sists of L. M. Dennis of Cornell, chair
man; e. K. Hall Of Dartmouth, secre-
tary; James A: Babbitt. Hayerford I;
vania; Walter Camp, Yale; Joshua
Crane, 1r., Harvard: Paul ]; Dashiell,
Annapolis; w L; Dudley vanderbilt
Princeton: Lieut.. H. H. Hackett, West
Point; James T. Lees, University of
Nebraska; c; w. Savage; oberliq; A.
WiIIiams University of Minnesota.
spalding's official football guide is
for sale by all newsdealers. or will be
sent to any address upon receipt OF
10 cents by the publishers, the Amerl, !,
can Sports Publishing company Il
! Warren street, New York city.